To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.
Eric HofferWhere freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
Eric HofferA man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
Eric HofferA compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.
Eric Hoffer