This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMarriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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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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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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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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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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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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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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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