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Alfred Nobel Quotes

1833–1896 Sweden

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, though he also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime.

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Also known as: Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel, Alfred

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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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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.

Home is where I work and I work everywhere.

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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The best excuse for the fallen ones is that Madame Justice herself is one of them.

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

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

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

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

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

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.

Dynamite and Peace (1929)

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Nobel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.