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Famous Quotes By Alfred Nobel

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It is my express wish that in awarding the 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 Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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The truthful man is usually a liar. — Alfred Nobel

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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. — Alfred Nobel

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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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Home is where I work, and I work everywhere. — Alfred Nobel

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Justice is to be found only in imagination. — Alfred Nobel

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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. — Alfred Nobel

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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading. — Alfred Nobel

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The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops. — Alfred Nobel

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Lying is the greatest of all sins. — Alfred Nobel

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I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist ... I can digest philosophy better than food. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent. — Alfred Nobel

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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. — Alfred Nobel

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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. — Alfred Nobel

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On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops. — Alfred Nobel

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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. — Alfred Nobel

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Worry is the stomach's worst poison. — Alfred Nobel

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I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself. — Alfred Nobel

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The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important discovery or invention in the science of physics, one-fifth to the person who has made the most eminent discovery or improvement in chemistry, one-fifth to the one having made the most important discovery with regard to physiology or medicine, one-fifth to the person who has produced the most distinguished idealistic work of literature, and one-fifth to the person who has worked the most or best for advancing the fraternization of all nations and for abolishing or diminishing the standing armies as well as for the forming or propagation of committees of peace. — Alfred Nobel

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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied — Alfred Nobel