01UndatedYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
02UndatedMany of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
03UndatedIt is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
04UndatedFaith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
05UndatedFear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
08UndatedThe game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
09UndatedWe do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
10UndatedIt is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
11UndatedIt is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
12UndatedWhen people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
14UndatedThere is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
16UndatedThe passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
17UndatedWhen people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
20UndatedPeople in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
21UndatedHowever much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
22UndatedThe poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
24UndatedOur credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.Eric Hoffer / quote ↗
