Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of information, who are more to him, possibly, than any person he sees. He continually returns to the cherished companion and feeds eagerly upon his thought. It is because there is something in the book which he needs, which awakens and directs trains of thought that lead him where he likes to be led.”