6 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Change

Eric Hoffer quotes on change

84. To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. page 27, Buccaneer Books edition (1990) ISBN 0899667481 172 pages total

100. The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

164. Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

172. It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for,' they do not feel like fighting.

174. It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

191. Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.