Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

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

Charles Horton Cooley

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

Charles Horton Cooley

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

Charles Horton Cooley

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.

Charles Horton Cooley

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

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.

Charles Horton Cooley