Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
