"No matter where we begin, if we pursue……" — Hugh Nibley
"No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven."
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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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As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority…
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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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