"We are made kind by being kind." — Eric Hoffer
"We are made kind by being kind."
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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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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
— Mary Astell
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he…
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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