One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
ALFRED NOBELHope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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 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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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Perhaps 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.
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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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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.
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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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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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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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