"When people are bored it is primarily with…" — Eric Hoffer
"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."
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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 Bored Quotes
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one of 1,195 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
— Renata Adler
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I…
— Theodore Bikel
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not…
— Christina Aguilera
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I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
— Danny Boyle
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I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do.…
— Tom Brady
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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