I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
ALFRED NOBELGood wishes alone will not ensure peace.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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