Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAnd 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.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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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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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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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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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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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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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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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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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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