Bryant H Mcgill quotes

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

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

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

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

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

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

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.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

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.

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

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

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

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

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

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.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.