Quotes by Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor who is best known for the creation of the Nobel Prizes. Born in 1833, Nobel was a prolific inventor, holding over 350 patents during his lifetime. He is perhaps best known for inventing dynamite, a powerful explosive that revolutionized the mining and construction industries. Nobel was also a philanthropist, and in his will he established the Nobel Prizes to be awarded to those who had made significant contributions to the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The Nobel Prizes are still awarded annually, and are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in their respective fields. (Bio)
Alfred Nobel Quotes
Contentment is the only real wealth. (Meaning)
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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.
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
The truthful man is usually a liar.
Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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.
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.
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.
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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 Quotes
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