Alfred Nobel Quotes - 9quotes.com

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Written by Alfred Nobel
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.
Written by Alfred Nobel
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.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
Written by Alfred Nobel
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.
Written by Alfred Nobel
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Written by Alfred Nobel
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.
Written by Alfred Nobel
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Written by Alfred Nobel
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Written by Alfred Nobel
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.
Written by Alfred Nobel
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.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
Written by Alfred Nobel
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Written by Alfred Nobel
The truthful man is usually a liar.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
Written by Alfred Nobel
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
Written by Alfred Nobel

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