Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harriswas an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
Sydney J. Harris quotes about
enemy-of-progress enemy progress
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
damage-is-done history-repeats-itself cunning
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
imagination world imagine
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
tunnels light next
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.
achievement risk significant
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
nice done deeds
Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.
advice kind trouble
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
facts bed embarrassing
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
atrocities warfare greater
There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
deception too-late may
Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
atheist real believe
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
forgiveness forgiving loser
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
knowledge brain
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
perseverance wall talent
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.