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True 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…
- 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…
- Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
- ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all…
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies…
- It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
- We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
- It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
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