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Coolness Quotes

What it really takes to stay cool under pressure.

These coolness quotes range from an old observation that calm argument serves truth better than heated defense, to modern reflections on fashion capitals like Tokyo, London, and New York carrying their own Calm stamp of coolness.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Quotes by William Penn

I've lived in a lot of places - London, Germany, Tokyo, Scotland, Ireland, Los Angeles, and New York. The fashion capitals I've lived in - Tokyo, London, and New York - have this stamp of coolness about them. But I've...

Quotes by Sonoya Mizuno

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

Quotes by Ricky Skaggs

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Quotes by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Big Quotes

I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's...

Quotes by James Murphy

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.

Quotes by James Cleverly

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it...

Quotes by Evelyn Underhill

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Quotes by Diablo Cody

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

Quotes by Ann Wilson

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the older quote say about coolness and truth?
It argues that calm, reasoned argument serves truth far better than passionate defense, noting that truth often suffers more from its heated defenders than from its actual opponents.
Which cities are named as fashion capitals with a sense of coolness?
Tokyo, London, and New York are named specifically, described as carrying a distinct stamp of coolness among the many places the speaker has lived.
Is there a quote about coolness as something learned or realized?
Yes — one describes spending a whole life wanting to be cool before eventually recognizing the underlying mechanism of how coolness actually works, without fully rejecting the desire for it.
What does the quote about 'tough decisions' argue about coolness?
It argues that being hip, popular, or cool is easy in ordinary circumstances, but that veneer of coolness quickly comes off once real, difficult decisions have to be made.
What overall view of coolness do these quotes share?
They treat coolness as more fragile and situational than it first appears, something easier to project than to sustain under pressure. See our Commodity quotes for related ideas on status and image.

The sharpest line argues that coolness is easy until real, tough decisions arrive — then the veneer comes off fast. For more on cities that define trends, see our Big Cities quotes.