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

1. 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”, in 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, Jeffrey A. Larsen, editors, Rockets’ Red Glare: Missile Defenses and the Future of World Politics, →ISBN, page 11:

     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.

See also

• cool head
• cool-headed