Sydney J. Harris Quotes

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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

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.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The two words Ôinformation` and Ôcommunication` are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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

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.

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.