A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
ALFRED NOBELThe 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.
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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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