"There is no doubt that in exchanging a……" — Eric Hoffer
"There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless."
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Eric Hoffer
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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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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
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Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
— Ernest Holmes
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously…
— Joyce Brothers
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that…
— John Garrett
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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
— Thomas Huxley
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific…
— George Whitefield
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had…
— Diane Arbus
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