Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe 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.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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