Author: Alfred Nobel

Quotes

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

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

- 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 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

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

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

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

- Alfred Nobel

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

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

- 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

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

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