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Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the right answer more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
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Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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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.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.
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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.
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There is no such thing as an atrocity in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. I got it from my good judgment, he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? I got it from my bad judgment.
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