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 NOBELHope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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