Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.