cooler heads will prevail
English
Alternative forms
- cooler heads must prevail
- cooler heads prevail
- cool heads must prevail
- cool heads prevail
- cool heads will prevail
Proverb
cooler heads will prevail
- People who are calm and focused are the most likely to succeed or to have the greatest influence on events.
- 1993 July 2, Robin Finn, "Tennis: Hotheads Need Not Apply to the Men's Final Four," New York Times (retrieved 20 March 2014):
- The cooler heads will prevail when the top four men in the world do battle Friday in the semifinals at Wimbledon.
- 2001, James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen (eds.), Rockets’ Red Glare: Missile Defenses and the Future of World Politics, →ISBN, page 11 (Google preview):
- This book assumes that cooler heads will prevail. Russian and American negotiators will find some way to accommodate the deployment of a modest interceptor force.
- 1993 July 2, Robin Finn, "Tennis: Hotheads Need Not Apply to the Men's Final Four," New York Times (retrieved 20 March 2014):
Related terms
- cool head
- cool-headed