To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to… — 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
