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

Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris Quotes

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

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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, Purpose, Windows

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

Time, Relax, You

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, Giving

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

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

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, World, Hate

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

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

Power, Anger, Small

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

Personal, Most, Intolerance

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

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

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

Happiness, Direction, Place

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

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

Forgiveness, Forgive, Loser

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

Thoughts, Feelings, First

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

Progress, Enemy, Greatest

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, You, Uncomfortable

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, Purpose, Mind

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

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

Best, Practice, Way

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

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. Sydney J. Harris

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

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

Art, Living, Knowing

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

Man, Young, Young Man

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

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

Knowledge, Brain, Small

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