QUOTES OF THE DAY 2-12-13

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
― Eric Hoffer
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
― Eric Hoffer

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
― Eric Hoffer
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
― Eric Hoffer
“Anger is the prelude to courage.”
― Eric Hoffer
“It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual’s hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
― Eric Hoffer
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”
― Eric Hoffer
“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”
― Eric Hoffer