"We often use strong language not to express……" — Eric Hoffer
"We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us."
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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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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning…
— Sai Baba
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I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.
— Sebastian Bach
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
— Francis Bacon
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who…
— Erykah Badu
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture…
— Anita Baker
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and…
— Ralph Bakshi
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
— Ansel Adams
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