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Truth Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
- The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless…
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- 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…
- Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
- It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.
- To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down…
- 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 truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor…
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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