Eric Hoffer Quotes

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

Things can change in the blink of an eye!

And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.