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. The farmer …

- Charles Horton Cooley

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

- Charles Horton Cooley

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, or…

- Charles Horton Cooley

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one,…

- Charles Horton Cooley

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

- Charles Horton Cooley

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and…

- Charles Horton Cooley

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

- 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

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling tha…

- Charles Horton Cooley