Quotes Sydney J. Harris

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuk...

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatic...

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic be...

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there....

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the pow...

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over...

Happiness is a direction, not a place....

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that ...

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ...

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism,...

It's surprising how many persons go through life without eve...

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small on...

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be d...

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes ...

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two ...

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not kno...

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not know...

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has j...

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do so...

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same t...

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think t...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is ...

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he wa...

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea ...

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey...