Sydney J. Harris Quotes

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Hard, Somebody

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

Time, Regret, Tempered

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'.
Sydney J. Harris

Love, Hate, Wrong

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.
Sydney J. Harris

Change, Love, Time

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.
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Yourself, Feelings

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

Anger, Power, Angry

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

Marriage, Success, Great

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris

Education, Whole, Purpose

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.
Sydney J. Harris

Long, Done, Short

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

Personal, Assume, Boasting

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris

Happiness, Place, Direction

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

Computers, Men, Real

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

Loser, Forgive, Winner

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Sydney J. Harris

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Sydney J. Harris

Pain, Someone, May

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris

Young, Old, Idea

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

Government, Democracy, Whether

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

Money, Men, Makes

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris

Communication, Giving, Words

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Age, Time

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?
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Real, Through

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

Enemy, Greatest, Progress

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris

Education, Mind, Place

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
Sydney J. Harris

Feelings, Thoughts, Second

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris

Ignorance, Dangerous, Nearly

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14, 1917

Died: December 8, 1986

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