Eric Hoffer
14 quotes.
Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Doing nothing is harmless, but being busy doing nothing is not.
- Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
- For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
- 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.
- It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
- Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.
- The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.
- The future belongs to the learners – not the knowers.
- The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.