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We Derive Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition…
- The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
- The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant…
More We Derive Quotes
- We derive our vitality from our store of madness. — Emile M. Cioran
- Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults… — Leonardo da Vinci
- The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion… — Francois La Rochefoucauld
- The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in,… — Charles Baudelaire
- We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs. — Roger Caras
- Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine… — Rene Descartes
- In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people… — Daniel Gilbert
- From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. — John Quincy Adams