Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

Connecting with people who are able to maintain a sense of humility is really useful.

Being sensitive means caring for your own feelings as well as those of others.

Humility, we say, is very important because we feel humility means the ability to listen, the ability to respect another's opinion and to find that everybody around you in some subject knows more.

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.