The truthful man is usually a liar.
ALFRED NOBELOne can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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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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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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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 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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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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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