“If you are a single college student, I ask you to make participation in institute a priority. Married students and other young adults are also welcome and encouraged to attend. Think of it. Friends will be made, the Spirit will be felt, and faith will be strengthened. I promise you that as you participate in institute and study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased. Divine favor will attend those who humbly seek it. That is a promise which I leave with you.”
– Thomas S. Monson
“An educated man is not one who has trained his mind to remember a few dates in history. He is one who can accomplish things. If a man cannot think, he is not an educated man, regardless of how many college degrees he may have attained. Thinking is the hardest work a man can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.”
– Henry Ford*
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
– Albert Einstein*
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin*
“As disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more; rather, we need to consistently do more of what we know is right and become better.”
– David A. Bednar
“If all you know is what you see with your natural eyes and hear with your natural ears, then you will not know very much.”
– Boyd K. Packer
“We do not learn spiritual things in exactly the same way we learn other things that we know, even though such things as reading, listening, pondering may be used. I have learned that it requires a special attitude both to teach and learn spiritual things. There are some things you know, or may come to know, that you will find quite difficult to explain to others. I am very certain that it was meant to be that way.”
– Boyd K. Packer
“None of us knows enough. The learning process is an endless process. We must read, we must observe, we must assimilate, and we must ponder that to which we expose our minds. . . . You cannot afford to stop. You must not rest in our development. . . . There is so much to learn and so little time in which to learn it.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
“Being educated is the difference between wishing you could do some good and being able to do some good.”
– Russell M. Nelson
“We can become educated persons, regardless of our stations in life – if we never quit learning.”
– George Washington*
“A man is saved no faster then he gets knowledge.”
– Joseph Smith
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela*
“He cannot help us remember things we have not labored to learn.”
– David A. Bednar
“Each of you, single or married, regardless of age, has the opportunity to learn and to grow. Expand your knowledge, both intellectual and spiritual, to the full stature of your divine potential.”
– Thomas S. Monson
“The religion embraced by Latter-day Saints, if only slightly understood, prompts them to search diligently after knowledge. There is no other people in existence more eager to see, hear, learn, and understand truth.”
– Brigham Young
“Put forth your ability to learn as fast as you can, and gather all the strength of mind and principle of faith you possibly can, then distribute your knowledge to the people.”
– Brigham Young
