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
graduation education wall
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
best-love believe partners
Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
helping-others people faults
People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.
time world care
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
maturity feelings feels
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
integrity evil looks
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
imagination discipline mind
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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.
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.
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.