15 Quotes by Eric Hoffer about thinking

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    people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

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    Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

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    We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

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    Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

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    To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

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