More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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?
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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 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.
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.
