Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
ALFRED NOBELHope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
ALFRED NOBELGood wishes alone will not ensure peace.
ALFRED NOBELI am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
ALFRED NOBELThe truthful man is usually a liar.
ALFRED NOBELPerhaps 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.
ALFRED NOBELI am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
ALFRED NOBELIt 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 NOBELNature 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 NOBELThe only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
ALFRED NOBELWorry is the stomach’s worst poison.
ALFRED NOBELI 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.
ALFRED NOBELFor me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
ALFRED NOBELFor 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.
ALFRED NOBELI 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.
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.
ALFRED NOBELContentment is the only real wealth.
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