A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
ALFRED NOBELNature 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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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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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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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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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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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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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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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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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