Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

I went to a great church here in L.A., gave my heart to the Lord and felt freedom from things I've carried throughout my life that I just thought, 'I don't have to carry them any more.'

Only the educated are free.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

My people are gone into captivity for want of knowledge.

Where the Spirit is, there is liberty.

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.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.