Top 45 Quotes About Nibley
#1. It is throwing your life away to think of the wrong things.
Hugh Nibley
#2. 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 to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.
Hugh Nibley
#3. Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a
contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.
Hugh Nibley
#4. [Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is ... [ever since Satan has] had it in for women.
Hugh Nibley
#5. 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 light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.
Hugh Nibley
#6. Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.
Hugh Nibley
#7. Self-justification, that was the danger
the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all.
Hugh Nibley
#8. Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else - Satan has us just where he wants us.
Hugh Nibley
#9. Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.
Hugh Nibley
#10. At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.
Hugh Nibley
#11. Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be - but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.
Hugh Nibley
#13. Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
Hugh Nibley
#14. They needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
Martha N. Beck
#15. What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?
Hugh Nibley
#16. Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal!
to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence ... Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.
Hugh Nibley
#17. Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.
Hugh Nibley
#18. The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.
Hugh Nibley
#19. There is something in the spirit of song ... that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.
Charles W. Nibley
#20. Doctors and trainers often see perfectly developed bodies, but nobody can even begin to imagine what a perfect *mind* would be like; that is where the whole range of progress and growth must take place.
Hugh Nibley
#21. In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.
Hugh Nibley
#22. The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.
Hugh Nibley
#23. Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.
Hugh Nibley
#24. Who can be 'agents unto themselves' if they are in bondage to others and have to accept their terms?
Hugh Nibley
#25. The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.
Hugh Nibley
#26. The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.
Hugh Nibley
#27. When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only
when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness
enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to
satisfy him personally that it is so. The same evidence which
convinces one expert may leave another completely unsatisfied.
Hugh Nibley
#28. In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but by opinion.
Hugh Nibley
#29. 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.
Hugh Nibley
#30. Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.
Hugh Nibley
#31. Can the mere convenience that makes money such a useful device continue indefinitely to outweigh the horrendous and growing burden of evil that it imposes on the human race and ultimately brings its dependents to ruin?
Hugh Nibley
#32. 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 life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.
Hugh Nibley
#33. Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.
Hugh Nibley
#34. 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 - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.
Hugh Nibley
#35. The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance.
Hugh Nibley
#36. The gas-law of learning: ... any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.
Hugh Nibley
#37. True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.
Hugh Nibley
#38. You can always somebody who is worse than you are to make you feel virtuous. It's a cheap shot: those awful terrorists, perverts, communists
they are the ones who need to repent! Yes, indeed they do, and for them repentance will be a full-time job, exactly as it is for all the rest of us.
Hugh Nibley
#39. All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.
Hugh Nibley
#40. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord than mingle with the top brass in the tents of the wicked.
Hugh Nibley
#41. 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.
Hugh Nibley
#42. Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
Hugh Nibley
#43. The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.
Hugh Nibley
#44. Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.
Hugh Nibley
#45. Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.
Hugh Nibley
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