Sydney J. Harris

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

— Sydney J. Harris

#feelings #first #just #like #our

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

— Sydney J. Harris

#leisure #liberal #liberal education #make #mind

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". ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#acts #excluded #feats #hardest #hate

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#regret #tempered #things #time

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#about #angry #does #indicate #make