A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins Copy Share
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
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… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Copy Share
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. — Norman Cousins Copy Share
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
