"Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in……" — Eric Hoffer
"Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others."
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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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More Borrow Quotes
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I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal…
— Michele Bachmann
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts…
— David Cameron
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Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue…
— Jay Carney
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
— Ray Charles
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
— Peter Høeg
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
— William James
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains…
— Charles Babbage
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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