Charles Horton Cooley Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Peace, Attitude, Giving

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.251, Transaction Publishers

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

• If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Running, Pride, Men

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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