Norman Cousins Quotes & Sayings

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”

“The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.”

“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”

“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”

“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”

“History is a vast early warning system.”

“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.”

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”