Top 31 Nansen Quotes
#1. Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#2. The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.
Fridtjof Nansen
#4. It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
Fridtjof Nansen
#5. Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resources-they're waiting to put their resources on the table to be able to lead towards a different world
Kavita Ramdya
#6. Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.
Fridtjof Nansen
#8. When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.
Mitch Hedberg
#9. 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
#10. If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
Tracy Kidder
#11. Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!
Fridtjof Nansen
#12. Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.
Fridtjof Nansen
#13. When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
William Hurt
#15. Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
Fridtjof Nansen
#16. I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but to move forward
Fridtjof Nansen
#17. 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
#18. Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.
Fridtjof Nansen
#19. The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.
Fridtjof Nansen
#20. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen
#21. I began writing late in life but I've learned that the more life you absorb, the more you have to say and the better you can say it.
Andrea Zug
#22. You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
Orson Welles
#23. It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.
Stephan Jenkins
#24. The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.
Fridtjof Nansen
#25. The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate.
Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?
Joe Haldeman
#26. 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 peace.
Fridtjof Nansen
#28. You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.
Fridtjof Nansen
#29. Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.
Haruki Murakami
#30. 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.
Fridtjof Nansen
#31. Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
