The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
SYDNEY J. HARRISRegret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
-
-
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.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
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.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
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.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
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.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
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.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS