"As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must……" — Hugh Nibley
"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 trusted."
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34 Quotes by Hugh Nibley
Hugh Nibley has 34 quotes on this site.
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on…
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You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit
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Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of…
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Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and…
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Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
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Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.
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The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void…
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Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.
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No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the…
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Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your…
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Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
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The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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