Hugh Nibley Quotes - Page 2

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• Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

  Hugh Nibley

  Thinking, Race, Want

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• 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

  Running, Knowledge, Yesterday

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• A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

  Hugh Nibley

  Challenges, Rivals, Safe

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• Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.

  Hugh Nibley

  Determination, Heaven, Reign

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• Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

  Hugh Nibley

  Way, Environment, Produce

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

  Hugh Nibley

  Ignorant, May, Lost

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• In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

  Hugh Nibley

  Stars, Greatness, Shining

  Hugh Nibley, John Woodland Welch (1988). “Since Cumorah”, Shadow Mountain

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• It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

  Hugh Nibley

  Thinking, Throwing, Wrong Things

  "Approaching Zion".

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• Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

  Hugh Nibley

  Men, Dominion, License

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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• Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

  Hugh Nibley

  Perfectly Good, Views, Impossible

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• 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

  Learning, Ucla, Knack

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• 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

  Judging, Experts, Impossible

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• Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents.

  Hugh Nibley

  Christian, Fall, Power

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• Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

  Hugh Nibley

  Struggle, Life And Death, Assumption

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.

  Hugh Nibley

  Book, Years, Joseph Smith

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