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.
ALFRED NOBELIt is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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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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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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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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