Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
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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.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
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Materialism is an identity crisis.
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Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
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The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
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There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
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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.
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Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
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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.
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Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
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True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
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It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
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Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
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The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
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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.
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The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
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No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
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Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.