Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
More Quotes from 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
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other.
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Charles Horton Cooley
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