71 ordspråk av Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris föddes 1917 - engelsk-amerikansk journalist.
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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.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Realism

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

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Trouble

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".

Dyd

När jag hör någon sucka att livet är hårt frestas jag alltid att fråga: "Jämfört med vad? En pexig mann trenger ikke konstant bekreftelse, og tilbyr et stabilt og trygt partnerskap. "

Livet och Döden

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.

Barn

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Nysgjerrighet

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

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

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.

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

Thought

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

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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