Hugh Nibley Quotes
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Who wins? The Americans or the Russians?" "Both," his father said, glancing to the frost-filled windowpane. "Then who loses?" "Everyone else.
— Anthony Marra
The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance.
— Hugh Nibley
People want to give back. People want to do good
— Bruce Poon Tip
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
— Francis Bacon
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
— C.S. Lewis
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
— Sophocles
The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.
— Hugh Nibley
Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
— Hugh Nibley
The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
— Adam Carolla
Self-justification, that was the danger
the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all. — Hugh Nibley
the exhilerating exercise of explaining why my ways are God's ways after all. — Hugh Nibley
Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
— Hugh Nibley
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
— Richard Holbrooke
Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else - Satan has us just where he wants us.
— Hugh Nibley
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.
— Hugh Nibley
Who can be 'agents unto themselves' if they are in bondage to others and have to accept their terms?
— Hugh Nibley
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
— Hugh Nibley
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?
— Hugh Nibley
Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.
— Hugh Nibley
You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.
— John Wooden