Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.