Top 8 Quotes by Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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.

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, Marketing

Discovery (published 1964).

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Adventure, Incompetence

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “My Life with the Eskimos”

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

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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, Gone

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

1945 The Arctic in Fact and Fable.

False modesty is better than none.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Modesty, False Modesty

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

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton