Top 114 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with 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.

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

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

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

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

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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.