"It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice." — Eric Hoffer
"It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice."
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Eric Hoffer
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice.…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture;…
— Sun Tzu
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
— Charles Lamb
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