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 NOBELFor me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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 am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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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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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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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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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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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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