55 ordspråk av Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
 Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. |
| Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. |
| 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. |
| Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. |
| Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady. |
| Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. |
| The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. |
| The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. |
| The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. |
| The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". |
| The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. |
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