Alfred Nobel quotes

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor most famous for inventing dynamite. His innovations had a significant impact on both industry and society, while his later life was marked by a strong interest in philanthropy. He established the Nobel Prizes, which continue to recognize outstanding achievements in science, literature, and peace. Here are 28 of his quotes:

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

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Contentment is the only real wealth.

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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

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The truthful man is usually a liar.

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

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

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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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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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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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

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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.

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We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable this foundation becomes.

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