"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

Life, Power, People, Personality

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."

Exlpore more Life quotes

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Instead, Clinging, Truth, Honesty

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Path, Truth, Discovery

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Memories, Property, Precious

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Cleansed, Conscience, Emerges

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Born, Win, Destiny, Success

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Abundance, Generosity, Receiving

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Bliss, Love, People, Unconditional

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

Explore more quotes by 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 hardly accepted."

Imagination, Impression, Character, Man

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

Work, Mind, Self, Suicide

"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."

Discipline, Absence, Freedom

"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, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."

Impression, Eyes, Man, Mind

"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

Etiquette, Proof

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

Mind, Hospitality

"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, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

Government, Churches, Freedom, Wrong

"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."

Compromise, End, Man, Prudence

"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."

Life, Power, Open, Trifles

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

Time,