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Knowledge Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that…
- The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human…
- It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than…
- To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down…
- In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
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