Charles Horton Cooley Mind Quotations

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

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

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.