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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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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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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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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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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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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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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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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