Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

Trust, Someone, Feeling

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer

Hope, Soul, Bankruptcy

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

Learning, Change, Find

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

Nature, Men, Human

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

Strength, Weak, Imitation

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Eric Hoffer

Fire, Free, Escape

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer

Greatest, Evil, Ugly

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer

Hand, Bite, Lick

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer

Mind, Evil, Person

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

Enemy, Means, Discover

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer

Love, Humanity, Whole

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer

Blessings, Master, Count

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

Judge, Kindness, Made

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer

Leader, Talk, Language

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric Hoffer

Love, Hate, America

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer

Head, Empty, Difficulty

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric Hoffer

Nothing, Less, Seem

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer

Power, True, Lie

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Faith, Lost, Holy

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Free, Please, Imitate

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Ourselves, Surprise

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer

Truth, Everyday, Ourselves

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Eric Hoffer

Nation, Peaceful, Perhaps

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Eric Hoffer

Eyes, Others, Themselves

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer

Child, Source, Talents

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 25, 1902

Died: May 21, 1983

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