Quote by Eric Hoffer
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

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Society
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. – Eric Hoffer

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It is the truth that irritates a person. – Proverb

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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. – Tacitus

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isnt. – Mark Twain

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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. – Miguel de Cervantes

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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. – William Howard Taft

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

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