Conditions Quote by Fridtjof Nansen

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

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

“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…

— Fridtjof Nansen

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

— Fridtjof Nansen

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

— Fridtjof Nansen

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

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

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

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

— Fridtjof Nansen

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

— Fridtjof Nansen

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

— Fridtjof Nansen

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