Top 20 Norman Cousins Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Norman Cousins Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas,

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
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The 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.
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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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.
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
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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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History is a vast early warning system.
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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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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Laughter is inner jogging.
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Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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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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