Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.