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Facts about Sydney J. Harris SummarySydney J. Harris was a famous Journalist from USA, who lived between September 14, 1917 and December 8, 1986.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 36 quotes who is written / told by Sydney, under the main topics: Government, Happiness, Marriage.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Anne Baxter, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Joe Namath, Arthur C. Clarke, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Didier Drogba, Øystein Stray Spetalen, Billy Zane, Arthur Lydiard, Robert Indiana, Whitfield Diffie, Phyllis Diller, Twyla Tharp, Jim Rohn Famous quotes by Sydney J. Harris (36)  "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong""
"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure"
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own"
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better"
"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting"
"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us"
"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught"
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable"
"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?""
"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others"
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run"
"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face"
"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be"
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers"
"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones"
"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be"
"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage"
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