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In Times of Change, Learners Inherit the Earth
Eric Hoffer was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983.
Philosopher | American
Born: 1902-07-25 in New York City, USA
Died: May 21, 1983 in San Francisco, USA
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
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
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric Hoffer
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
Eric Hoffer
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
Eric Hoffer
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffer
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Eric Hoffer
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer
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
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Eric Hoffer
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
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
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
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
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Eric Hoffer
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Eric Hoffer