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Person Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in…
- The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
- Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success
- Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
- The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of…
- The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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