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. HARRISWe evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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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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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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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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