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.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
