Quote by Thor Heyerdahl
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and

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

Other quotes by Thor Heyerdahl

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesnt 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

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

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Nature
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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

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War
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Other Quotes from
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Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. – Bodhidharma

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Nature

The world is a sunny success. – Terri Guillemets

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Nature

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. – Pam Brown

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Nature

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. – Mao Zedong

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Nature

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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just dont say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. – James Laughlin

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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. – Pablo Picasso

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if youre not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are. – Peter Guber

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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. – Donald Knuth

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