Nobel Family Quotes

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

“Contentment is the only real wealth.”

“Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.”

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

“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.”

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

“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”

“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions.”

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

“Justice is to be found only in the imagination.”

“Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.”

“Worry is the stomach's worst poison.”

“My factories may well put an end to war sooner than your congresses. The day when two army camps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror and disband their forces.”

“It is the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitroglycerin, to be taken internally! They call it Trinitrin, so as not to scare the pharmacist and the public.”

“The economics prize is a misuse of the family name. Alfred Nobel would never have approved of a prize in economics.”

“A misanthrope, yet utterly benevolent; a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.”

“We were flabbergasted.”

“Mr. Nobel had been voted out as head of the Nobel Family Society mainly because of his unauthorized activities and involvements in the name of the Nobel Family Society.”