Eric Hoffer Quotes

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

As a kid I was creative.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Children reinvent your world for you.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.