I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
ALFRED NOBELMy 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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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 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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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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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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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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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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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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