Author: Alfred Nobel

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

- Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

- Alfred Nobel

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

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

- Alfred Nobel

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

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

- Alfred Nobel

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

- Alfred Nobel

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

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