Eric Hoffer Echoes Quotations

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.