Quotes by : Sydney J. Harris

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

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning.....

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....

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

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....

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would....

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence.....

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It....