Eric Hoffer

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. ”

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. ”

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ”

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ”

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. ”

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ”

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ”

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. ”

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ”

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. ”