Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Eric Hoffer

Read through the most famous quotes from Eric Hoffer




Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.


— Eric Hoffer


#consists #few #good #good habits #habits

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.


— Eric Hoffer


#perishable #talent #youth

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


— Eric Hoffer


#giving #having #mother #oneself #reckless

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


— Eric Hoffer


#change #deal #earth #equipped #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


#despot #hater #human #human nature #into

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


#drastic #drastic change #equipped #exists #find

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.


— Eric Hoffer


#imitation #rudeness #weak

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


#emptiness #evil #greatest #hardest #hide

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


— Eric Hoffer


#even #feel #fire #free #frying

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


— Eric Hoffer


#doubts #every #evil #formidable #lurking






About Eric Hoffer






Did you know about Eric Hoffer?

"
Certainly Europe had undergone a similar destruction of tradition but it had occurred centuries earlier at the end of the Medieval period and produced better results thanks to different circumstances. " He saw these puberty rites as essential for self-esteem and noted that mass movements and juvenile mindsets tend to go together to the point that anyone no matter what age who joins a mass movement immediately begins to exhibit juvenile behavior. Consequently self-loathing produces explosive effects that cannot be mitigated through social engineering schemes such as programs of wealth redistribution.

In 2001 the Eric Hoffer Award was establiEric Hofferd in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005. His first book The True Believer publiEric Hofferd in 1951 was widely recognized as a classic receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.

back to top