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)

    A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper—forgetting age for a moment.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)