More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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.