Norman Cousins Quotes

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins

Wisdom, Consists

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman Cousins

Live, Big, Keep

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
Norman Cousins

Book, Together, Meaning

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

Life, History, Famous

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins

Business, Government, Today

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
Norman Cousins

Fight, United, Survive

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

Medical, Health, Science

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
Norman Cousins

Today, Control, Through

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Norman Cousins

Book, Worth, Read

We will not have peace by afterthought.
Norman Cousins

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

Human, Fact, Force

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 24, 1915

Died: 1990

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