Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Eric Hoffer quotes, Eric Hoffer sayings, and Eric Hoffer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
t sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.Eric Hoffer
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.Eric Hoffer
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.Eric Hoffer
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.Eric Hoffer
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.Eric Hoffer
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It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.Eric Hoffer
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.Eric Hoffer
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.Eric Hoffer
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We are made kind by being kind.Eric Hoffer
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When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.Eric Hoffer
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God some where in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.Eric Hoffer
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.Eric Hoffer
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.Eric Hoffer
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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.Eric Hoffer
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.Eric Hoffer
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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.Eric Hoffer
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.Eric Hoffer
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.Eric Hoffer
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We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.Eric Hoffer
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.Eric Hoffer
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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.Eric Hoffer
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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.Eric Hoffer
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.Eric Hoffer
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Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.Eric Hoffer
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.Eric Hoffer
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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.Eric Hoffer
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.Eric Hoffer
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Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.Eric Hoffer
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.Eric Hoffer
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Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.Eric Hoffer
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