Eric Hoffer Quotes

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.

Be not arrogant because of that which you know; deal with the ignorant as with the learned

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet.

You can be gay and be proud of that and not have to worry about being unsuccessful or unaccepted.

I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them