Quotes by Hugh Nibley

Hugh Nibley

[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.

Clever

Hypocrisy

Satan

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.

Challenges

Rivals

Safe

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.

Discovery

Forever

Games

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.

Issues

Jealous

Light

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.

Knowledge

Running

Yesterday

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Knack

Learning

Ucla

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

Matter

Self

Taught

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

Determination

Heaven

Reign

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

Assumption

Life And Death

Struggle

Don’t be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you’re just a reflection.

Different

Echoes

Reflection

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Achievement

Angel

Assumption

Book

Business

Capacity

Challenges

Christian

Clever

Degrees

Determination

Differences

Different

Discovery

Doe

Dominion

Doors

Echoes

Effort

Encyclopedia

Environment

Experts

Fall

Father

Forever

Games

Greatness

Heaven

Hypocrisy

Ignorant

Illusions Of Grandeur

Impossible

Independent

Information

Inspirational

Intellectual

Issues

Jealous

Jesus

Joseph Smith

Judging

Knack

Knowledge

Law

Leadership

Learning

Leaving

License

Life

Life And Death

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Quotes by Hugh Nibley

Hugh Nibley

[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.

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.

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.

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.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

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

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

Don’t be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you’re just a reflection.

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