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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way. (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)
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. (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)
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don’t even know what to do with themselves in this brief one? (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don’t understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don’t understand as the product of a deranged mind? (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people? (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves. (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)
Maturity begins when we’re content to feel we’re right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. (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)
Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the right answer more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one’s self cannot be learned from another. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The beauty of ‘spacing’ children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure (Sydney J Harris Quotes)
Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards (Sydney J Harris Quotes)