Eric Hoffer Quotes

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

A wise man is better than a prophet.

The world values the seer above all men

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism. …. The world always demands of a prophet a double standard. He must live a life consistent with his dreams, and at the same time must obey the conventions of the world. He cannot be judged either by one or the other, but must be judged by both.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see