Sydney J. Harris Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

“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.”

“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.”

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”

“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'.”

“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.”

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?”

“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'”

“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.”