Quotes by : Sydney J. Harris

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's....

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience,....

The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is that....

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that....

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here....

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

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is....

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set....

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to....