Sydney J. Harris - Man Quotes

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A "reasonable" man is not one who depends solely on reasoning, but one who knows the limits of reason and the place that faith must begin.

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It is the single-purposed man who reaches the goal most surely and swiftly — and then has the most time to find out that having a single purpose is not a satisfactory goal in life.

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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

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What you believe counts for less than how you feel and act toward your fellow man.

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My chief objection to the self-made man is that he is so pleased with his maker.

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Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

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There are only three things that no man will believe about himself — that his sense of humor is deficient, that he is not well-bred, and that he is not somehow appealing to women.

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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

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

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The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

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