Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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Alfred Nobel, 'Aphorisms by Alfred Nobel'. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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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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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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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 am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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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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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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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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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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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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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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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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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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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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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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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.