"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an……" — Eric Hoffer
"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
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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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On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as…
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We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of…
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
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The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear…
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For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, 'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, You…
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