About Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely...
More quotations from Eric Hoffer
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity—romantic love and gunpowder.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.