Quote by Eric Hoffer
The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with other

The beginning of thought is in disagreement — not only with others but also with ourselves. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

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

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Failure
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. – Eric Hoffer

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Men
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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Knowledge
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Dissent
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. – Wayne Dyer

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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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If we confuse dissent with disloyalty – Edward R. Murrow

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Dissent

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. – Andrea Dworkin

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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. – Arthur Miller

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There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. – M. Scott Peck

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. – Cyril Connolly

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon

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