Sydney J. Harris Quotes about Acceptance

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

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”

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