Brigham Young Quotes

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Truth is error burned up.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.