Man enough 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