24 Quotations by Sidney J. Harris
- 1. A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disap ...
- 2. A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive
- 3. An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A re ...
- 4. If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
- 5. If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
- 6. Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority ...
- 7. It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward ...
- 8. Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not? ...
- 9. Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
- 10. Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their ...
- 11. People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
- 12. Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head ag ...
- 13. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that ...
- 14. Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
- 15. The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as a ...
- 16. The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
- 17. The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your o ...
- 18. The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think ...
- 19. The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
- 20. The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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