"We run fastest and farthest when we run…" — Eric Hoffer

"We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves."

— 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.
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…

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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. — Henry Ward Beecher
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in… — Robert Burton
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing… — Dale Carnegie
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. — Paul Dirac
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the… — Max Lerner
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. — Thomas Adams
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. — William Wordsworth
Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when… — Rajneesh
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of… — Francis Bacon
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near… — Thomas Brooks
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men… — Aristotle
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the… — Arthur Eddington

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