Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harriswas an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
attitude hate shadow
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.
appreciation applause interruptions
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
people immortality eternal-life
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?
art empathy listening
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
education college mind
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
men coats looks
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
appreciation loss swings
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
mother father parent
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
children mistake lying
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
couple divorce should-have
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
war unique men
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
healthy care firsts
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
teacher children mistake
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.
thinking people generosity
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.