Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
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“It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.”
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“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
— Charles Horton Cooley
“The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
“The bashful are always aggressive at heart.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail ... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
“Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
— Charles Horton Cooley
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
— Charles Horton Cooley
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
— Charles Horton Cooley
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.
— Charles Horton Cooley
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
“Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
“The actual God of many Americans ... is simply the current of American life.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
“A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.”
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
— Charles Horton Cooley
— Charles Horton Cooley
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