"There is a virtue, I must presume, in……" — Robert Ardrey
"There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either."
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25 Quotes by Robert Ardrey
Robert Ardrey has 25 quotes on this site.
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial…
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is…
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender.…
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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have…
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to…
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master…
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them.…
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