Quote

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Norman Cousins
Age: 75 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Peace Activist
Professor
Writer
Union City
New Jersey
System
History
Warning
Vast
Historical
Early

More quotes by Norman Cousins

Image
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
Norman Cousins
Image
Integration is a basic law of life when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.
Norman Cousins
Image
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Norman Cousins
Image
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman Cousins
Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.
Norman Cousins
Image
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.
Norman Cousins
Image
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
Norman Cousins
Image
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.
Norman Cousins
Image
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.
Norman Cousins
Image
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins
Image
We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.
Norman Cousins
Image
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
Norman Cousins
Image
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins
Image
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
Norman Cousins
Image
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.
Norman Cousins
Image
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?
Norman Cousins
Image
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.
Norman Cousins
Image
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.
Norman Cousins
Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.
Norman Cousins
Image
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Norman Cousins