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.
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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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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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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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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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 not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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 am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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 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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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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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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