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Us Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
- 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…
- 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…
- When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily…
- The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
- All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is…
- Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
- When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict…
- Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
- Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us…
- The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and…
- Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle