Alfred Nobel Quotes
Alfred Nobel suggests a single good idea can outweigh many, prompting readers to consider innovation and peace.
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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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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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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.
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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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Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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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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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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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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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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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.