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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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. – Eric Hoffer

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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer

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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman

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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. – Jesus Christ

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. – Friedrich Schiller

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