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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Written by Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Written by Eric Hoffer
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Written by Eric Hoffer
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Written by Eric Hoffer
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Written by Eric Hoffer
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Written by Eric Hoffer
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Written by Eric Hoffer
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.
Written by Eric Hoffer
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Written by Eric Hoffer
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Written by Eric Hoffer
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Children are the keys of paradise.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Written by Eric Hoffer
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Written by Eric Hoffer
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.
Written by Eric Hoffer
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Written by Eric Hoffer
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Written by Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Written by Eric Hoffer
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Written by Eric Hoffer
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Written by Eric Hoffer
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Written by Eric Hoffer
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Written by Eric Hoffer
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Written by Eric Hoffer
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Written by Eric Hoffer

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