Sydney J. Harris Quotes
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.



Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.



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



Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.



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.








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