Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

To me, the thing that sets us apart from so many other animal species is our ability to ask questions, investigate, gather information, come to our own conclusions, and sometimes depart from the pack, sometimes move away from the tribe.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.

Think your own thoughts.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Thinking for yourself - that's scarier than any devil image.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.