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