"Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from……" — Hugh Nibley
"Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another."
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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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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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The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they…
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not…
— Mortimer Adler
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
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