The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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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, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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