The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Other Sydney J. Harris quotes:
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
