Words matter. These are the best Alfred Nobel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The truthful man is usually a liar.
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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.
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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.
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 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.
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
It is my express wish that in awarding the 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 recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
