Brigham Young Quotes

Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

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.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

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

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!