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Things Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
- They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than…
- A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic…
- The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
- 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…
- You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for…
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.
- Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
- We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
- The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only…
- 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…
- A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
- Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
- We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
- We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
- It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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