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Hence Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as…
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that…
- However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human…
- Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals…
- It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,…
- An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
More Hence Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the… — David Lack
- As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,… — James Hutton
- The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long… — Ramakrishna
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must… — Jane Addams
- We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we… — Cyrano de Bergerac