Sydney J. Harris Quotes

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Sydney J. Harris

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 14, 1917

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Sydney J. Harris

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Sydney J. Harris

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney J. Harris

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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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 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 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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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Sydney J. Harris

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

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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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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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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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