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Results of search for Author: Eric Hoffer - Page 1 of 5 Showing results 1 to 10 of 41 total quotations found.
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Results from Poor Man's College:

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

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