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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl
Biography
Author Profession:
Explorer
Nationality:
Norwegian
Born:
October 6
, 1914
Died:
April 18
, 2002
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Quotes to Explore
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.
Thor Heyerdahl
Time
,
Decision
,
People
,
Battle
,
Reality
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
,
People
,
Sacrifice
,
Uniform
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
Thor Heyerdahl
Future
,
Past
,
Minute
,
Every
,
Becoming
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
,
Circumstances
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
,
Good
,
Live
,
Ugly
,
Friends
,
Enemy
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
Thor Heyerdahl
Experience
,
Happy
,
Find
,
Circle
,
Person
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
Thor Heyerdahl
Time
,
Believe
,
Reality
,
Wake Up
,
Up
,
May
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
,
People
,
Listening
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
,
World
,
Chance
,
Born
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
Thor Heyerdahl
Communication
,
Sea
,
People
,
Beginning
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
,
Believe
,
Solution
,
Kind
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
,
Time
,
Alone
,
Believe
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
,
People
,
Find
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
,
Been
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