Eric Hoffer Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Age, Answers

• To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Numbers, People

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Home, Past, People

  Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

• ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dark, Age, Genius

• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Book, Learning

• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Retirement, Nursing

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

  Eric Hoffer

  Teacher, Time, Children

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 33, 1973.

• For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.

  Eric Hoffer

  Opposites, Age, World

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

  Eric Hoffer

  Drama, Artist, Destiny

• A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Age, Youth

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