Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

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

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Few things are as essential as education.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

You have to learn and keep learning.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.