If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems. Sydney J. Harris More Quotes by Sydney J. Harris More Quotes From Sydney J. Harris Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. Sydney J. Harris keeping-promises summer winter Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. Sydney J. Harris indifference curiosity secret People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. Sydney J. Harris generosity people thinking We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' Sydney J. Harris parenting responsibility education Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Sydney J. Harris democracies-have political witty 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. Sydney J. Harris divorce couple should-have Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney J. Harris men ideas thinking Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths. Sydney J. Harris tools truth discovery Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. Sydney J. Harris kind trouble advice A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future. Sydney J. Harris successful leadership sports The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along. Sydney J. Harris tests secret character It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. Sydney J. Harris patriotism greatness country We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. Sydney J. Harris withdrawal pain suffering Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris detours enjoy flower Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. Sydney J. Harris brain knowledge The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals. Sydney J. Harris betrayed men world Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square. Sydney J. Harris squares choices art As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. Sydney J. Harris practice men ideas Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' Sydney J. Harris witty funny two Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. Sydney J. Harris imagine imagination world
