Top 114 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

A man by himself is in bad company.

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

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

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.

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