More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
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.
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
