A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

- Eric Hoffer

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

- Eric Hoffer

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

- Eric Hoffer

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

- Eric Hoffer

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

- Eric Hoffer

All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming …

- Eric Hoffer

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

- Eric Hoffer

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

- Eric Hoffer

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

- Eric Hoffer