Familiar Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those…

— Charles Horton Cooley

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think…

— Charles Horton Cooley

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

— Charles Horton Cooley

It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as…

— Charles Horton Cooley

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…

— Charles Horton Cooley

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…

— Charles Horton Cooley

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins…

— Charles Horton Cooley

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

— Charles Horton Cooley