American - Journalist | September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ninety per cent 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 - so how can we know anyone else?
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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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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'.
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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