Sydney J. Harris Quotes

American - Journalist September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986

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

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

Happiness, Place, Direction

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

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

Education, Mirrors, Purpose

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

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

Relax, Time, You

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

Always, Say, Am

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, Include, Achievements

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, Think, Will

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, Remain

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

Acceptable, Superiority

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

Forgiveness, Winner, 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

Count, Realist, Determines

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

Always, Life, Sigh

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

Stagnation, False, Progress

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

Anger, Small, About

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

Through, Other, Recognizing

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

Thoughts, Like, About

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. Sydney J. Harris

Effective Way, Effective

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

Nutshell, Belongs, Any

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, Through

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, System, Asking

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. Sydney J. Harris

Next, Argument, Your

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. Sydney J. Harris

Living, Which, Art

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

Imagine, Imagination

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

Middle, Other, Bother

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, Regret, Tempered

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

Through, Almost, Cent

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

Which, Mind, Education

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