Famous Quotes / Norman Cousins
41 Quotations by Norman Cousins
- 21. Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms ...
- 22. Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
- 23. No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
- 24. Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the ...
- 25. Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
- 26. Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
- 27. Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations -- plus or minus -- it is im ...
- 28. The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of ...
- 29. The essence of man is imperfection.
- 30. The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
- 31. The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the p ...
- 32. The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his mean ...
- 33. The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu ...
- 34. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the ...
- 35. The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much ...
- 36. War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
- 37. We enjoy or suffer the consequences of our ideas, our acts or our hopes, and our fears. I cannot aff ...
- 38. We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to l ...
- 39. We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the h ...
- 40. We will not have peace by afterthought.