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Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
Philosopher
Psychologist
Writer
New York City
New York
Moral
Proportion
Sense
Genuine
Without
Integrity
Good
Intelligence
Neither
Balance
Taste
Perhaps

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