« All Search Quotes · Eric Hoffer's Page
Search Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a…
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is…
- The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
More Search Quotes
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who… — Ronald Reagan
- Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle
- You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry.… — Marie Lu
- We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant… — Larry Page
- The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual… — Unknown Author
- Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for… — Willis R. Whitney
- It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's… — Albert Einstein