Charles Horton Cooley

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    The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    My secrets are petty but humiliating.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)