Author: Alfred Nobel

Quotes

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.

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.

- Alfred Nobel

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

- Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

- Alfred Nobel

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 intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

- Alfred Nobel

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

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

- Alfred Nobel

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

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

- Alfred Nobel

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

- Alfred Nobel

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

- Alfred Nobel

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.

- Alfred Nobel

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