If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
“Wednesday, November 8th, 1893 Here I sit in the still winter night on the drifting ice-floe, and see only stars above me. Far off I see the threads of life twisting themselves into the intricate web which stretches unbroken from life’s sweet morning dawn to the eternal death-stillness of ice. Thought follows thought—you pick the whole to pieces, and it… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man. — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side. — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
