Sign Up
Login
Favorites
Collections
My Account
Logout
Language
Español
Français
Apps
iPhone/iPad app
About
About Us
Contact Us
Terms Of Service
Copyright
Privacy
Privacy Policy
Sign Up
Login
Favorites
Collections
My Account
Logout
Home
Authors
Topics
Quote Of The Day
Pictures
Sign Up
Login
Favorites
Collections
My Account
Logout
Language
Español
Français
Apps
iPhone/iPad app
About
About Us
Contact Us
Terms Of Service
Copyright
Privacy
Privacy Policy
Authors
Topics
Pictures
Quote Of The Day
Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
|
Follow Us:
Please enable Javascript
This site requires Javascript to function properly, please enable it.
Related Authors
Erma Bombeck
Hunter S. Thompson
Ann Coulter
Ambrose Bierce
Ann Landers
Mignon McLaughlin
Dave Barry
Andy Rooney
Popular Topics
Motivational Quotes
Life Quotes
Positive Quotes
Work Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Friendship Quotes
Funny Quotes
Family Quotes
More
Top 10 Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Cite this page
Find Sydney J. Harris on:
Wikipedia
Amazon
Sydney J. Harris Quotes
American
-
Journalist
September 14
, 1917 -
December 8
, 1986
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
Education
,
Purpose
,
Mirrors
,
Turn
,
Whole
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
,
Words
,
Information
,
Two
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Sydney J. Harris
Life
,
I Am
,
Life Is Hard
,
Always
,
Say
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Sydney J. Harris
Time
,
Relax
,
You
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
Love
,
Change
,
Time
,
Hate
,
Better
,
Want
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
Happiness
,
Place
,
Direction
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
,
World
,
Moral
,
Wrong
,
Say
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris
Forgiveness
,
Winner
,
Loser
,
Forgive
,
Too
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
,
Short
,
Run
,
Matter
,
Done
,
Left
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris
Angry
,
Power
,
Anger
,
Small
,
You
,
Your
Top 10
Sydney J. Harris
Quotes
View the list
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
,
People
,
You
,
Feelings
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
Men
,
Computers
,
Think
,
Will
,
Real
,
Like
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Sydney J. Harris
Life
,
I Am
,
Life Is Hard
,
Always
,
Hard
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris
Personal
,
Without
,
Us
,
Most
,
Intolerance
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris
Ignorance
,
Dangerous
,
Per
,
Nearly
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
,
Time
,
Age
,
Saying
,
Why
,
Us
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
Wisdom
,
Time
,
Regret
,
Things
,
Did
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Sydney J. Harris
Progress
,
Enemy
,
False
,
Greatest
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
Success
,
Marriage
,
Great
,
Imagination
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris
Winter
,
Promise
,
Summer
,
Easy
,
Nothing
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Sydney J. Harris
Money
,
Men
,
More
,
Make
,
Many
,
Makes
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
Sydney J. Harris
Lady
,
Born
,
Never
,
Bed
,
Over
,
Fact
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney J. Harris
Philosophy
,
Put
,
Any
,
Belongs
,
Nutshell
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney J. Harris
Knowledge
,
Small
,
Brain
,
Large
,
Merely
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
Democracy
,
Government
,
Only
,
System
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris
Beauty
,
Time
,
Children
,
Parents
,
Learn
Loading...
Load more quotes
Prev
1
2
Next
Related Authors
Erma Bombeck
Hunter S. Thompson
Ann Coulter
Ambrose Bierce
Ann Landers
Mignon McLaughlin
Dave Barry
Andy Rooney
BrainyQuote Desktop
BrainyQuote Mobile
Site
Home
Authors
Topics
Quote Of The Day
Pictures
Top 100 Quotes
Professions
Birthdays
Social
BQ on Facebook
BQ on Twitter
BQ on Pinterest
BQ on Google+
BQ on Instagram
Apps
iPhone/iPad app
Quote Of The Day Feeds
Javascript and RSS feeds
WordPress plugin
Quote of the Day Email
About
About Us
Contact Us
Submit
Privacy
Terms
Copyright
© 2001 - 2019 BrainyQuote
Language:
Español
|
Français
OK