Best Quotes by Sydney J. Harris (Top 10)
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest", but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
Sydney J. Harris