"Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown……" — Eric Hoffer
"Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us."
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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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More Din Quotes
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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din…
— Leo Burnett
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
— Arthur Balfour
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless…
— Lewis Carroll
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The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.
— Unknown Author
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The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of…
— Unknown Author
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They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the…
— Todd Harris
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True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.
— Edward Hoagland
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The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window…
— Seth Godin
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're…
— Edward Hirsch
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Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is…
— Bob Ehrlich
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I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
— Bette Davis
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