Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefanssonwas a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth3 November 1879
CityGimli, Canada
CountryCanada
Vilhjalmur Stefansson quotes about
truth differences use
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.
adventure interesting retrospect
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.
truth practice civilization
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.
modesty false-modesty
False modesty is better than none.
land feet may
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.