Sydney J. Harris Quotes - Page 7

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• The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Enemy Of Progress, Enemy, Progress

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• When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

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  Justice, Feelings, Firsts

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

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  Acceptance, Tolerance, Assuming

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

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  Forgiveness, Sacrifice, Forgiving

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• Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

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  Peace, War, Nuclear

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• The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

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  Children, Mistake, Lying

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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  Knowledge, Brain

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• Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

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  Mind, Weakness, Mouths

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• But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

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  Thinking, Want, Matter

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

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  Believe, Mean, Insanity

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

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  Thinking, Hypocrisy, Sin

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

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  Love, Hate, Differences

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

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  Wife, Chance, Telling The Truth

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

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  New York, Ego, Lust

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• Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

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  Food, Credit, Littles

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