"What monstrosities would walk the streets were some……" — Eric Hoffer
"What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds."
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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 Faces Quotes
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
— J. J. Abrams
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
— Lance Armstrong
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's…
— Neil Armstrong
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
— Arthur Ashe
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with…
— Margaret Atwood
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
— Diane Ackerman
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