Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alfred Nobel
Age: 63 †
Born: 1833
Born: October 21
Died: 1896
Died: December 10
Chemist
Engineer
Industrialist
Philanthropist
Photographer
Weapons Manufacturer
Sthlm
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Nobel
Alfred B. Nobel
Improve
English
Poetry
Call
Relieve
Purpose
Pretension
Write
Slightest
Writing
Verses
Depression

More quotes by Alfred Nobel

Image
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
Image
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Alfred Nobel
Image
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Alfred Nobel
Image
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.
Alfred Nobel
Image
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.
Alfred Nobel
Image
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.
Alfred Nobel
Image
The truthful man is usually a liar.
Alfred Nobel
Image
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
Image
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
Alfred Nobel
Image
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.
Alfred Nobel
Image
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel
Image
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
Alfred Nobel
Image
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
Alfred Nobel
Image
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
Alfred Nobel
Image
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Alfred Nobel
Image
Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
Alfred Nobel
Image
It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel 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.
Alfred Nobel
Image
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
Alfred Nobel
Image
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel
Image
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Alfred Nobel