Sydney J. Harris Short Quotes

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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

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

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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

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Nobody is more insufferable than the fool who happens to be right by chance.

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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

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I would rather stay up late arguing with friends than get a good night's sleep.

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

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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

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The wistful adoration of celebrities is one of the surest signs of a weak intellect.

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Ambiguity has its own uses, and it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

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More trouble is caused in the world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.

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

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

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

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A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder — and turn quickly to my typewriter.

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

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There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

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The only "true church" is that which admits there is no way of knowing which denomination God belongs to.

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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be....

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The frightening thing about bigotry is that it creates, shapes and solidifies the very element it dislikes.

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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

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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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Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

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There is little hope for the human race so long as each of us looks for his own face first in a group photograph.

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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

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Home-owners ought to be fined for not having the house numbers largely and distinctly visible on their front doors.

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