"Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal……" — Eric Hoffer
"Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise."
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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 Alibi Quotes
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are…
— Albert Camus
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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
— Napoleon Hill
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Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions…
— Gough Whitlam
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
— Jerry Orbach
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You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self…
— Christy Mathewson
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Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
— Henry Iba
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If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you…
— Fred Beck
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves…
— Isabel Paterson
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
— Andrea Gibson
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls,…
— Mae West
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