The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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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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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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 time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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 greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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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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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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