243 Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

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

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

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

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

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.

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

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.