Fridtjof Nansen Quotes

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Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Fridtjof Nansen
Never stop because you are afraid—you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Fridtjof Nansen
The cold of the polar regions was nothing to the chill of an English bedroom.

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Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

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The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.

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The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

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Unseen and untrodden under this spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.

Fridtjof Nansen
The limits of the unknown had to recede step by step before the ever-increasing yearning after light and knowledge of the human mind.

Fridtjof Nansen