A Quote by Eric Hoffer

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer
American - Writer
July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

Graham Lowe

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

Paul Simon

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

Carl Olson

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

Ted Gup

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

Learned Hand

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

Thomas a Kempis

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Tom Watson

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Lew Wallace

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

Orison Swett Marden

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas a Kempis

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.