Best 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"… Answer
- Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. Each
- The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear… Art
- What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The… Believe
- Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he… Attitude
- Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. Achieve
- This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics,… Accidental
- Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This… Among
- Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get… Considerable
- Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it… Art
- The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. Change
- The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the… Allies
- Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color… Age
- When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears,… Allies
- But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts… Accept
- Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents. Child
- The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to… Ability
- As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at… Called
- And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its… Acquire
- It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our… Accept
- A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is… Authentic
- Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause.… Applause
- Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Advice
- A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he… Answered
- When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings. All
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