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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNobody 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.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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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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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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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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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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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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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.
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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 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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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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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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