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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.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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.
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.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.