Quotes by : Eric Hoffer

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents....

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.....

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves....

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves.

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

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and....