Psychology Quotes by Eric Hoffer

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,

— Eric Hoffer

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

— Eric Hoffer

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

— Eric Hoffer

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

— Eric Hoffer

But I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind

— Eric Hoffer

“Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us”

— Eric Hoffer

“There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate whenever they meet.”

— Eric Hoffer

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

— Eric Hoffer

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle…

— Eric Hoffer

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

— Eric Hoffer

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind…

— Eric Hoffer

In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo…

— Eric Hoffer

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join…

— Eric Hoffer

“When we speak of authority at present we usually have in mind governmental authority. Actually, social order is most firm when imposed…

— Eric Hoffer

The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance…

— Eric Hoffer

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their…

— Eric Hoffer

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the…

— Eric Hoffer

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something…

— Eric Hoffer

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind…

— Eric Hoffer

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

— Eric Hoffer

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

— Eric Hoffer