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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 Quotes

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.

Ability Failure

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

American Writer

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Dissatisfaction

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Belief Cheating

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

American Writer People

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

American Writer God

It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking - Eric Hoffer Quotes

It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? - Eric Hoffer Quotes

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

American Writer

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Composers Obscurity

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

American Writer Majority

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

American Writer Imitation

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous

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

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

America American Writer

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. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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.

American Writer Eyes

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

American Writer Living

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. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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.

American Writer Eyes

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

American Writer Living

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

American Writer Pride

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand - Eric Hoffer Quotes

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

American Writer

The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government.

Civilization Government

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. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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.

American Writer

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

American Writer

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

American Writer

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

American Writer Ignorance

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

American Writer Luck

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened - Eric Hoffer Quotes

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

American Writer Future

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

Ability American Writer

In the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything - Eric Hoffer Quotes

In the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything

To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question - Eric Hoffer Quotes

To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question

Youth itself is a talent / a perishable talent. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Youth itself is a talent / a perishable talent.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Fear

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of

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. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

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.

American Writer

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

American Writer

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others

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 Quotes

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.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

American Writer Angels

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible - Eric Hoffer Quotes

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible

Animals often strike us as passionate machines. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

American Writer Animals

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. - Eric Hoffer Quotes

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

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