Norman Cousins's Quotes
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 CousinsHe who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman CousinsLife is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman CousinsYour heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman CousinsA library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman CousinsIt 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 CousinsThe main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman CousinsRespect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman CousinsDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman CousinsThe 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 CousinsIt is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
Norman CousinsPeople are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman CousinsThe individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman CousinsHearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman CousinsHistory is a vast early warning system.
Norman CousinsWisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman CousinsWe will not have peace by afterthought.
Norman CousinsThe eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman CousinsThe human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman CousinsHope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Norman CousinsThe 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 CousinsWhat was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Norman CousinsMy reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
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