Sydney J. Harris Quotes About Acceptance

Quotes about: Acceptance

• Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Mediocrity, Merit

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

• If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Endure, Terrible

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Assuming

• The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Mean, Acceptance

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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