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 NOBELThe 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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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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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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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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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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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