Eric Hoffer Quotes

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

I have matured a lot.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.

I'm a mature person.

I know I'm only 24, but I know in my head already I am mature, because I've got the right mental side of it.

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.