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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. - Thor Heyerdahl

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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

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Author Profession: Explorer

Nationality: Norwegian

Born: October 6, 1914

Died: April 18, 2002

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Topics

Ability, Complicate, Man, Progress, Simplicity

Quotes to Explore

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. Thor Heyerdahl

Strength, Sacrifice, People, Know, Own

One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. Thor Heyerdahl

Nature, Live, Wind, Listening, People

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. Thor Heyerdahl

World, Security, Land, Military, Most

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Thor Heyerdahl

Technology, Happiness, Man, Society

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. Thor Heyerdahl

War, Mind, World, Start, Judging, Always

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord. Thor Heyerdahl

Nature, Man, Win, Battle, Fighting, Own

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any. Thor Heyerdahl

War, Conflict, Heroism, Believe, Kind

For every minute, the future is becoming the past. Thor Heyerdahl

Future, Past, Minute, Becoming, Every

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. Thor Heyerdahl

Picture, Political, Feel, Suit, I Feel

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. Thor Heyerdahl

Nature, Future, Alone, Time, Believe

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. Thor Heyerdahl

Experience, Happy, Circle, Person, Find

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist. Thor Heyerdahl

Time, Wake Up, Reality, Believe, Up, May

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. Thor Heyerdahl

Nature, Live, Good, Friends, Ugly, Enemy

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born. Thor Heyerdahl

Today, Thinking, Chance, World, You

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