Quotes by Eric Hoffer

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

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

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

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.