Top 114 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

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

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

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