Top 30 Alfred Nobel Quotes
#2. 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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#3. Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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#4. Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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#5. 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.
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#7. Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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#11. A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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#12. 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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#14. 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.
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#15. I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
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#16. 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.
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#17. If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied
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#18. Justice is to be found only in imagination.
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#19. 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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#20. For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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