Quotes Eric Hoffer

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unha...

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believe...

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of tru...

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to...

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet...

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. T...

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a fail...

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to o...

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to o...

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us al...

There would be no society if living together depended upon u...

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy ...

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exagger...

To become different from what we are, we must have some awar...

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profes...

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question....

To the old, the new is usually bad news....

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous....

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who nee...

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things...

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We as...

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But i...

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not und...

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dre...

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the fry...