Invention Quote by Fridtjof Nansen Download Open image “Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.” — Fridtjof Nansen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Invention Lines Retreat Solitude Wretched
“when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.” — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share
“Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may… — Lygia Fagundes Telles Copy Share
“You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When the old ways disappear, as perhaps they must, it is regrettable that so little is saved from them, so that those who practice… — Philip L. Wagner Copy Share Image
“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.” — Michael Korda 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… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
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
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
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