Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image ““The intellectual cannot operate at room temperature.”” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.” — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Through an exaggerated reliance on the intellect we have come to view the imagination as a faculty not to be trusted or valued.” — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
