Eric Hoffer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.”

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”

“The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.”

“Children are the keys of paradise.”

“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”

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

“A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.”

“The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.”

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

“The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.”