Sydney J Harris quotes

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

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

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

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

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.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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

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.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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.

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

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

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

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.

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

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

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.