Eric Hoffer

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. ”

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ”

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. ”

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. ”

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. ”

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. ”

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. ”

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. ”

The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ”

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. ”