Alfred Nobel Quotes

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• Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other…
• 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…
• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
• It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
• Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
• 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…
• Contentment is the only real wealth
• I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
• 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 recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
• Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
• A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
• 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.
• 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…

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