Alfred Nobel Quotes

Contentment is the only real wealth.

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.

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.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

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.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

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 only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

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.

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.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.