Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWe evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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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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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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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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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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 refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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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.
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