Eric Hoffer Quotes & Quotations

Eric Hoffer Quotes

» The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

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

» 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.

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

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

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

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

» Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

» 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.

» In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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