Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansenwas a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition of 1893–96. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth10 October 1861
CountryNorway
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
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.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
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.
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
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.
War will cease when men refuse to fight.
Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.
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.
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.