"Where there is the necessary technical skill to……" — Eric Hoffer
"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
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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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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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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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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in…
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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