Quote #65
Education: '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.'
More from Bryant McGill
- Integrity: 'Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.'
- Enthusiasm: 'Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.'
- Action: 'Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.'
- Fanaticism: 'Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.'
- Death: 'Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.'
- Constitution: 'For the weak, beliefs are not always in line with their own personal truths, but instead they follow the path of least socia…
- Manners: '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…
- Manners: 'Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.'