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Happiness is a direction, not a place (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Just about the only interruption we don’t object to is applause (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
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 (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Young people know less than we do, but they understand more; their perception has not yet been blunted by compromise, fatigue, rationalization, and the mistaking of mere respectability for morality (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Work and play are an artificial pair of opposites, because the best kind of play contains an element of work, and the most productive kind of work must include something of the spirit of play (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it (Sydney J Harris Quotes)