All Eric Hoffer Quotes
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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