Just as admirable was his tolerance and openness to the various ways of achieving important goals. Mycielski made this very clear: he would never openly criticise the extremes of modernity, but at the same time he would seek not to kowtow to this tendency.

Mycielski was always full of dignity; this dignity built his authority also in those most difficult years and he was able to maintain it – and not everyone managed to do that! [...]

^{From the interview conducted by Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska 
(Mycielski. Szlachectwo zobowiązuje, Kraków 2018)}