It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
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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
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Charles Horton Cooley
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton Cooley
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago.
Charles Horton Cooley
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Charles Horton Cooley
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.
Charles Horton Cooley
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