Will Harris
Will Harris
William Taylor Harrisis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies...
mean law miracle
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle...
simple answers complicated
Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
attitude believe men
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.
psychics people minorities
Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
enemy-of-progress enemy progress
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
thinking hypocrisy sin
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
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.
independent dislike-someone tests
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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.
attitude hate shadow
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
appreciation applause interruptions
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
people immortality eternal-life
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
art empathy listening
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
education college mind
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.