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Category Archive: Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “One should never criticize his own…”

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

August 30, 2021 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “The mind is not a hermit’s…”

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

August 20, 2021 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “There is no way to penetrate…”

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

July 27, 2021 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “The literature of the inner life…”

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

April 26, 2021 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “A man may lack everything but…”

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail… Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

November 25, 2020 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “Every general increase of freedom is…”

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

November 15, 2020 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “Unless a capacity for thinking be…”

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

October 25, 2020 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “When one ceases from conflict, whether…”

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.

September 19, 2020 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “If we divine a discrepancy between…”

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 imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

July 17, 2020 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

Charles Horton Cooley Quote: “To get away from one’s working…”

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 of travel and change.

July 11, 2020 1866, American, Charles Horton Cooley, Quotes by Sociologists

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