Bill Wilson Quotes

12 quotes from 7 authors

Bill Wilson’s words have shaped modern recovery, offering blunt honesty and quiet hope. This page gathers twelve of his most resonant statements alongside seven perspectives from fellow thinkers, giving you a quick sense of how his ideas still echo in today’s support circles.

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There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not…

Susan Cheever

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“The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once explained, "is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.”

Ernest Kurtz

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“The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his…

Anonymous

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“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would…

William S. Wilson

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“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not…

William S. Wilson

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“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”

William S. Wilson

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“On December 11,1934, Wilson’s drinking came to a screeching halt. On that day he was readmitted to Towns Hospital, sedated, and subjected…

Charles Bufe

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The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it.…

Susan Cheever

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“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the…

Chris Prentiss

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“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the…

Chris Prentiss

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“influence on the development of AA was substantial. As Bill Wilson wrote in Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, “The important thing is…

Anonymous

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“...the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected { George…

Bird Wilson

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