Sydney J. Harris Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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?”

“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”

“The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.”

“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”

“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”

“When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.”

“Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.”

“Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.”

“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.”

“Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.”