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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. (Quote by - Richard Francis Burton)

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest.The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. (Quote by - John Cheever)

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words. (Quote by - Richard Mitchell)

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. (Quote by - Dr. Rob Gilbert)

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes. (Quote by - C. D. Broad)

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. (Quote by - Lyall Watson)

Propaganda serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. (Quote by - S.i. Hayakawa)

Power concedes nothing without a demand. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. (Quote by - Charles Kettering)

It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings. (Quote by - Rollo May)

The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields.With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny. (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

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