Quotes By Bryant H. McGill

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.