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Eric Hoffer Quotes

«An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.»
«We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.»
«We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: prepares
«Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: vigor
«The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.»
«Man was nature's mistake -she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: neglected
«Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: ascent, practices
«Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.»
«There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: chaste, copulate