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Sydney J. Harris [1917-1986] American

Rank: 101
Journalist

Sydney J. Harris was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.

Time, Education, Men, Age, Anger, Change, Communication, Computers, Forgiveness, Government, Happiness, Imagination, Knowledge, Life, Love, Marriage, Money, Power, Success, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.	Education	101
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.	Time, Wisdom	102
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.	Communication	103
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.	Love	104
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.		105
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.	Computers, Men	106
Happiness is a direction, not a place.	Happiness	107
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.		108
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.	Men, Money	109
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.	Forgiveness	110
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.		111
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.	Time	112
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.	Change, Time	113
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'	Life	114
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?	Anger, Power	115
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.	Imagination, Marriage, Success	116
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.		117
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'	Age	118
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.		119
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.		120
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'		121
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.	Education	122
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.		123
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 go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?		124
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.		125
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.		126
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 upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.		201
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.	Government	202
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.	Knowledge	203
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.		204
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.		205
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.		206
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.		207
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.		208
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.		209
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.		210
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.		211
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.		212

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