Quotes By Sydney J. Harris

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

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

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.

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.

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.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.