Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

You learn from everything.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Any time I found a new piece of knowledge or wisdom, I would thank Allah for it. Then Allah would bless me with more of it.

You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

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.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Experience is a great teacher.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.