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Danh ngôn của Eric Hoffer (Sứ mệnh: 3)

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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.