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

- James Ramsey Ullman

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

- James Ramsey Ullman

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 wron…

- James Ramsey Ullman

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

- James Ramsey Ullman

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 wisdo…

- James Ramsey Ullman

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

- James Ramsey Ullman