There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

The statement stresses the derivative nature of human understanding: whatever “knowledge,” “light,” or “wisdom” a person claims is not self-generated but received—through teachers, communities, experience, tradition, and (in Brigham Young’s religious framework) ultimately through God’s revelation. It functions as a rebuke to intellectual pride and a reminder of dependence and gratitude. The phrasing also aligns with Latter-day Saint emphases on continuing revelation and the idea that truth is mediated—passed along through authorized channels, instruction, and spiritual gifts—rather than invented ex nihilo by the individual.