It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
Eric HofferIt is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric HofferA sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. And, as one would expect, the feeling of guilt promotes hate and brazenness. Thus it seems that the more sublime the faith the more virulent the hatred it breeds.
Eric HofferOne word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure
Eric Hoffer