The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
– Eric Hoffer
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- We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves. – Eric Hoffer
- It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. – Eric Hoffer
- We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. – Eric Hoffer
- The greatest weariness comes from work not done. – Eric Hoffer
- No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. – Eric Hoffer
- Anger is the prelude to courage. – Eric Hoffer
- Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. – Eric Hoffer
- In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer
- Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist. – Eric Hoffer
- Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. – Eric Hoffer
- Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action. – Eric Hoffer
- To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. – Eric Hoffer
- In America, disagreement with the policies of the government does not necessitate a lack of patriotism! – Senator Mitchell
- Our common humanity can bridge any prior expanse of disagreement between us. – Carmine Savastano
- It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist’s worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance. – Criss Jami
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others. – Orrin Woodward
- He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
- Some piously record ‘In the beginning God’, but I say ‘In the beginning hydrogen’. – Harlow Shapley
- The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. – Ezra Pound
- There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine. – Charles Lamb
- Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun. – Amit Kalantri
- The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. – HG Wells
- Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning-”the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever. – Billy Graham
- Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity. – CJ Anderson
- Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. – Osho
- Death is not the beginning of an endless deep, dark, silent night but the beginning of a bright, joyful, eternal light. – Debasish Mridha
- A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
- Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Think twice as much as others.Study twice as much as others.Work twice as much as others.Give twice as much as others. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Dream what others do not.Imagine what others have not.Do what others will not.Achieve what others could not. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Be smarter than others imagined.Be braver than others anticipated.Be stronger than others calculated.Be better than others envisioned. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Smile, even when others do not.Care, even when others will not.Love, even when others could not.Give, even when others cannot. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- We don’t come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren’t born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants. – Elaina Marie
- Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves – Marty Rubin
- I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. – Iain Banks