Author Topic: ~ Eric Hoffer Quotes ~ (Read 4809 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:10:02 PM »

Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:10:32 PM »

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:11:04 PM »

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:11:34 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:12:05 PM »

However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:12:45 PM »

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:13:20 PM »

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:13:52 PM »

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:14:24 PM »

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:14:55 PM »

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:15:25 PM »

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:15:56 PM »

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:16:30 PM »

People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:17:00 PM »

There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical while marriage is conservative.

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:17:35 PM »

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.

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