Charles Horton Cooley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.”

“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”

“Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.”

“Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.”

“The bashful are always aggressive at heart.”

“If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.”

“To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.”

“There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.”

“Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.”

“We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.”