Quotes By Sydney J. Harris

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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

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

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

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

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