Sydney J. Harris's Quotes

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Sydney J. Harris

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

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

Sydney J. Harris