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.
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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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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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 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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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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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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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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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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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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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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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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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 not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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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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 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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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