Hugh Nibley Quote

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.

Approaching Zion (ed. Shadow Mountain, 1989)

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...

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...

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...

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...