Alfred Nobel Quotes

Contentment is the only real wealth.

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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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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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Nature is mans 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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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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

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I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull mens 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 individuals capacity to make an independent position for himself.

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Lying is the greatest of all sins.

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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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Hope is natures veil for hiding truths nakedness.

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Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

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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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Worry is the stomachs worst poison.

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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.

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Kants style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

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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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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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