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Nothing Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.
- Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
- We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something…
- There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,…
- Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your…
- Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.
- Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in…
- 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…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- 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…
- We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
- Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe