Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

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

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

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.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’