Norman Cousins Quotes

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Death, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Greatest, Dies

• President Nixon’s motto was, if two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Pain, Dies
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  The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Inside, Tragedy

• 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

  Topics in History

  Tags in Book

• The way a book is read – which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book – can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.

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  Tags in Book

• A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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  Tags in Book

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Answer

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

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Dreams, Difficulties

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

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  Topics in Education, Failure

  Tags in Main, Matters

• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fashions, Consequences

• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Anticipation, Consequences

• Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.

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  Tags in Conscience

• What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Foot, Moon

• Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Apparatus, Logic

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Incomplete, Little

• He who keeps his cool best wins.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wins, Win, Keeps

• Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Education, Life

  Tags in Fragility, Importance

• The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illness

Norman Cousins (47)

Birth:	24th June, 1915
Death:	30th November, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Professor

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