Quotes from Alfred Nobel

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.

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.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses. The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

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

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.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

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

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

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.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

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.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

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

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

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.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.