James Ramsey Ullman Quotes

• To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Needs, Littles, Knows

  James Ramsey Ullman (1945). “The White Tower”

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• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

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• The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Men, Vision, Mountain

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• We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Civilization, Impulse, Primal

  James Ramsey Ullman (1951). “River of the Sun”

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• It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Pain, Block, Men

  James Ramsey Ullman (1988). “Banner in the sky”

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