Hugh Nibley Quotes

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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.

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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.

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True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

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The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

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

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

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

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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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