Quotes by Norwegian/Norway authors (page 2)

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

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

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

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

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

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

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"For every minute, the future is becoming the past"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"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, Explorer

"You have to be willing to put in the hard work and make sacrifices to achieve your goals"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"In business, you have to be able to adapt and change your approach if something isn't working"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"I think being an entrepreneur is all about taking responsibility for yourself and taking chances"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"You have to be able to handle the ups and downs in business, and be able to pick yourself up and keep moving forward"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"Success is not about luck, it's about having a clear vision and working towards it every day"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"I think one of the most important things in life is to be curious and always be learning"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"A forest bird never wants a cage"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

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Quotes by Norwegian authors