"A peculiar side of credulity is that it……" — Eric Hoffer
"A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
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I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you…
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked…
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I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than…
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