Top 31 Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

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.

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

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.