We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

About Eric Hoffer

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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...

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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.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.

More quotations tagged with “memory”

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

—Chinese proverb

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

—Benjamin Franklin

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[Memory is] a man's real possession… In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

—Alexander Smith

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