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 NOBELLying is the greatest of all sins.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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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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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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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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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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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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 am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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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 truthful man is usually a liar.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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 intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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