Bryant McGill Quotes on Thinking
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Understanding: 'Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives.'
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Words: 'Words are the tools that verbally enable our thoughts. If a person cannot communicate his ideas effectively to others because of a weakness in language, then how may he understand the concepts of others fully? Moreover, how may one conceive and understand one's own creative thoughts? How can you bring to fruition that which you cannot convert from the abstract?'
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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.'
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Education: 'In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.'
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Ignorance: 'Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.'
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Ignorance: 'The common person fears to think beyond the common.'