“ 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. Charles Horton Cooley
“ Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley
“ The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Charles Horton Cooley
“ Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. Charles Horton Cooley
“ Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. 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
“ Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function,… Charles Horton Cooley
“ Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. Charles Horton Cooley
“ So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. 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… Charles Horton Cooley
“ A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition. Charles Horton Cooley
