Quotes by Alfred Nobel - Page 1

Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Lying
Sin
Sins
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
Alfred Nobel / Chemist
Men
Liars
Truthful
Liar
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Contentment
Real
Wealth
Only
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Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
Alfred Nobel / Chemist
Poison
Stomach
Worry
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
Alfred Nobel / Chemist
Alone
Good Wishes
Wish
Ensure
Wishes
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Benevolent
Misanthrope
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Justice is to be found only in imagination.
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Imagination
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Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Home
Everywhere
Work Home Where
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination
Found
Justice
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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Truth
Hiding
Spiritual
Veils
Veil
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Men
Book
Ink
Recluse
Books
Dead
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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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Age
Agriculture
Humbug
Industry
Second Chance
Biggest
Second
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Respect
Ethics
Order
Worthy
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel / Chemist
Failure
Fear
Good
Creativity
Ideas
Satisfied
Thousand
Turns
Am
Only
Out
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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Science
Biographies
Buzz
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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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Heavy
Pure
Reader
Reason
Style
Longs
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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 / Chemist
Love
Heart
Persuasion
Stomach
Digest
Forced
To Love
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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 / Chemist
Believe
Crooked
Lines
People
Believe Living People
Lawyers
Straight
Line
Straight Line
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Biographies
Concise
Eloquent
Impossible
Writing
Brief
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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 / Chemist
Death
Fund
Ideas
Promotion
Results
Skeptical
After
Idea
Leave
Intend
Large
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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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Gun
Use
Wish
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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 / Chemist
Knowledge
Differences
Exaggeration
Human Knowledge
Observation
States
Basis
State
Search
Similarities
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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 / Chemist
Benevolent
Idealist
Misanthrope
Philosophy
Digest
Efficiently
Loose
Screw
Utterly
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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 / Chemist
Government
War
Country
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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 / Chemist
Depression
Now And Then
Pretension
Purpose
Verses
Writing
Relieve
Slightest
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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 / Chemist
Army
Civilized
Civilized Nations
Horror
Nations
Recoil
Troops
Annihilate
Corps
Mutually
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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.
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War
Impossible
Writing
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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.
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Men
Giving Up
Hands
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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.
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Nature
Teacher
Travel
Heart
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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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Men
Army
World
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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.
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Candidates
Consideration
Given
Nationality
Prize
Wish
Worthy
Awarding
Express
Receive
Scandinavian
Shall
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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 worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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Consideration
Nobel
Wish
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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 in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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War
Army
Military
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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 / Chemist
War
Father
First Time
Hammers
Touched
Time War Me
Anvil
Beginning
War Time Father
War Time Me
Exploded
Hammer
In The Beginning
Professor
Spreading
Struck
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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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Life
Science
Strong
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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.
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Children
Independent
Mistake
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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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Sister
Cheer
Memories
Vanity
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