Top 114 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

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.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

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.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

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

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.