"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
― Eric Hoffer
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Age
― Eric Hoffer
More From Eric Hoffer
- "Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith."
- "Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart."
- "One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action."
More In Age
- "Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age."― Jerry Saltz
- "Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you’re very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people."― Annie Lennox
- "Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."― Jack Nicholson