Norman Cousins - Best Quotes

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.

Hope

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

History

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

History

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

History is a vast early warning system.

Health

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

Norman Cousins

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

Great

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Forgiveness

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Famous

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: Norman Cousins

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

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.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.

History is a vast early warning system.

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

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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.