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Thinking Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
- To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think…
- Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
- Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
- People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
- We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
- people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor…
- No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner…
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The…
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