Nothing 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

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About Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris (September 14, 1917 – December 7, 1986) was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, "Strictly Personal", was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. He also wrote an...

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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

—Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is—when you don't have time for it.

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

—Sydney J. Harris

Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

—Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."

—Sydney J. Harris

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When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

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When you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

—Stephen Jay Gould

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

—Samuel Butler

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