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.
ALFRED NOBELPerhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
-
-
The truthful man is usually a liar.
ALFRED NOBEL -
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL -
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.
ALFRED NOBEL -
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
ALFRED NOBEL -
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
ALFRED NOBEL -
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
ALFRED NOBEL -
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
ALFRED NOBEL -
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.
ALFRED NOBEL -
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.
ALFRED NOBEL -
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.
ALFRED NOBEL -
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
ALFRED NOBEL -
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
ALFRED NOBEL -
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
ALFRED NOBEL -
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
ALFRED NOBEL -
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
ALFRED NOBEL