An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
SYDNEY J. HARRISHappiness is a direction, not a place.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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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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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.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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 have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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