Eric Hoffer Quotes
- Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is…
- The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
- The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies…
- It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
- It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
- The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
- There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
- Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
- Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.