Sydney J. Harris Thinking Quotations

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

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