31 Quotes By Norman Cousins


He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins on best

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins on business

He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins on cool

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins on death

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins on death

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins on dreams

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Norman Cousins on education

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins on education

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins on failure

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Norman Cousins on faith

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins on famous

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins on forgiveness

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins on government

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Norman Cousins on graduation

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins on great

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
Norman Cousins on health

History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins on history

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins on history

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins on history

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins on hope