Eric Hoffer Quotes

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.

Every problem solved is a problem made.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.