Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
Top 32 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.