42 Quotes by Hugh Nibley

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

It is throwing your life away to think of the wrong things.

Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don’t, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

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

What on earth have a man’s name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

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

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