Top 6 Quotes by James Ramsey Ullman

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

Needs, Littles, Knows

James Ramsey Ullman (1945). “The White Tower”

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

James Ramsey Ullman

Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

James Ramsey Ullman

Ignorance, Mean, Men