199 Quotes by Norman Cousins

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.