All Hugh Nibley Quotes
- The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their… According
- You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit Capacities
- Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic… Academic
- Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others… Achieve
- Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another. Appear
- Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle. Always Rests
- The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large. Amount
- As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be… Authority
- Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us. Anything Else
- No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made --… Always Remain
- Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink… Accommodate
- Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C. B C
- The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge. Book
- Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man. There is… All
- Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands. Angel
- And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official… Been
- A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . .… Able
- At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. Craven
- If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you -… Angel
- There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him… Adam