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Words 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…
- Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self…
- A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of…
- Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
- We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something…
- Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
- Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your…
- Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism…
- We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word…
- The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in…
- Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.
- People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
- It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in…
- However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the…
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