90 Quotes by 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 of travel and change.

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

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

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.

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.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.