When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Quote by Eric Hoffer
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
- The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
- We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
- Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Best Quotes
- I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.
- I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
- We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
- The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
- Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.