Contentment is the only real wealth.
ALFRED NOBELIt 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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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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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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 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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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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.
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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 recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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