James Ramsey Ullman quotes

James Ramsey Ullman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.”
-- James Ramsey Ullman

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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