Sydney J. Harris Quotes (60 Quotes)

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

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.

All significant achievement comes from daring, from experiment, from the willingness to risk failure.

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. 'I got it from my good judgment,' he answered. And where did his good judgment come from 'I got it from my bad judgment.'

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.