Top 114 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

Children are the keys of paradise.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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

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

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.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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