Norman Cousins Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Norman Cousins on Wise Famous Quotes.
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice ... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.
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.
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.