Quotations by Author



Bryant H. McGill



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.


Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.


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.


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


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


Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.


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


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


Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.


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


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


One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.


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


The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.


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


The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.


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


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.


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.


Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.


Within the hearts of men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.


You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.