Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Pioneer, Expression

• It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Reflection, Ourselves

• It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Taste, People

• It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Judge

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Neighbour

• It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Promise, Sense, Evil

• It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Praise

• It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in America

  Tags in Immigrant

• 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

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Change

• I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudices, Mind

• Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crucial

• Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Holy, Faith

• Facts are counterrevolutionary.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Facts

• Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire, Different

• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Disappointment, Bankruptcy

• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Creativity

• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Mother

• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Compassion

• Children are the keys of paradise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Paradise

• Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Effective

Eric Hoffer (125)

Birth:	25th July, 1902
Death:	21st May, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

About

Eric Hoffer was born in The Bronx, New York city, New York, USA. He was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. He wrote several books include: The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, The Temper of Our Time, Nature and The City, and Between the Devil and the Dragon.

Related Authors

• Vianka Van Bokkem
• Nicholas Pileggi
• Tobias George Smollett
• Kevin Brooks
• Dennis Lehane
• Michele Jennae
• H. Allen Smith
• Zoë Marriott
• Tanjlisa Marie
• Kenneth E. Boulding

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 25th November

Births

• 1957 - Robert L. Ehrlich
• 1881 - Pope John XXIII
• 1870 - Maurice Denis
• 1880 - Leonard Woolf
• 1915 - Augusto Pinochet

Deaths

• 1973 - Laurence Harvey
• 1998 - Nelson Goodman
• 1974 - U Thant
• 1970 - Yukio Mishima
• 2002 - Karel Reisz