All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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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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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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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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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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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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