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“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

“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

“True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.”
― Hugh Nibley, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“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, Approaching Zion

“Why should we labor this unpleasant point? Because the Book of Mormon labors it, for our special benefit. Wealth is a jealous master who will not be served halfheartedly and will suffer no rival--not even God: "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." (Matthew 6:24) In return for unquestioning obedience wealth promises security, power, position, and honors, in fact anything in this world. Above all, the Nephites like the Romans saw in it a mark of superiority and would do anything to get hold of it, for to them "money answereth all things." (Ecclesiastes 10:19) "Ye do always remember your riches," cried Samuel the Lamanite, ". . .unto great swelling, envyings, strifes, malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities." (Helaman 13:22) Along with this, of course, everyone dresses in the height of fashion, the main point being always that the proper clothes are expensive--the expression "costly apparel" occurs 14 times in the Book of Mormon. The more important wealth is, the less important it is how one gets it.”
― Hugh Nibley, Since Cumorah

“Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.”
― Hugh Nibley

“Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.”
― Hugh Nibley, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“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, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“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, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.”
― Hugh Nibley, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“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, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“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, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.”
― Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion

“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, Of all things!: A Nibley quote book

“Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.”
― Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion

“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

“The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance.”
― Hugh Nibley, Old Testament and Related Studies

“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, Since Cumorah