5 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Knowledge

Eric Hoffer quotes on knowledge

21. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.

104. An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

111. The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

131. By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.

175. It is not at all simple to understand the simple.