Eric Hoffer
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.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

Children are the keys of paradise.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Eric Hoffer
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.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer

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.