Vilhjalmur Stefansson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Truth #Differences #Use
Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Adventure #Incompetence
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Age #World #Earth
Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Adventure #Interesting #Retrospect
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Truth #Practice #Civilization
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Land #Feet #May
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Real #Two #Kind
False modesty is better than none.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Modesty

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson famous quotes

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