Explore One Of The Most Amazing and Famous Nikola Tesla Quotes
1) ”If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
2) ”I don’t care that they stole my idea .I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
3) ”The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
4) ”The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
5) ”What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”
6) ”Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of
indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”
7) ”I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
8) ”Of all things, I liked books best.”
9) ”Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
10) ”My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
11) ”The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
12) ”If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
13) ”I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
14) ”Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
15) ”But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
16) ”Its not the love you make. It’s the love you give.”
17) ”Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
18) ”I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.”
19) ”You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
20) ”The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”
21) ”The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.”
22) ”What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.”
23) ”Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.”
24) ”My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.”
25) ”The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”
26) ”Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.”
27) ”Inventors don’t have time for married life.”
28) ”So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.”
29) ”One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
30) ”Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
31) ”Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”
32) ”All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
33) ”When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact.”
34) ”Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
35) ”We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.”
36) ”What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
37) ”If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.”
38) ”Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”
39) ”Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.”
40) ”Great moments are born great opportunity.”
41) ”As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.”
42) ”The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.”
43) ”The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
44) ”There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity.”
45) ”It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.”
46) ”All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena.”
47) ”We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.”
48) ”The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.”
49) ”When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.”
50) ”One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
51) ”A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.”
52) ”instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
53) ”Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
54) ”One’s salvation could only be brought about through his own efforts.”
55) ”Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.”
56) ”The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.
57) ”Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone–that is the secret of invention.”
58) ”One may feel a sudden wave of sadness and rake his brain for an explanation when he might have noticed that it was caused by a cloud cutting off the rays of the sun.”
59) ”Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”
60) ”If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.”
61) ”To gain your energy from the right sources means you gain more energy from less; reducing the retarding factors means you have less friction that wastes your energy; focusing your motive power towards the direction of the collective human movement means you use others’ energy to boost your energy.”
62) ”I am filled with conviction that the interests of humanity would be best served if the United States remained true to its traditions and kept out of “entangling alliances.”
63) ”An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant.”
64) ”War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.”
65) ”Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts.”
66) ”I had produced a striking phenomenon with my grounded transmitter and was endeavoring to ascertain its true significance in relation to the currents propagated through the earth.”
67) ”the eye is the most wonderful. It is the most precious, the most indispensable of our perceptive or directive organs, it is the great gateway through which all knowledge enters the mind. Of all our organs, it is the one, which is in the most intimate relation with that which we call intellect. So intimate is this relation, that it is often said, the very soul shows itself in the eye.”
68) ”Our bodies are of such complexity of structure, the motions we perform are so numerous and involved, and the external impressions on our sense organs to such a degree delicate and elusive that it is hard for the average person to grasp this fact.”
69) ”Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”
70) ”One of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”
71) ”The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.”
72) ”One may feel a sudden wave of sadness and rake his brain for an explanation when he might have noticed that it was caused by a cloud cutting off the rays of the sun.”
73) ”As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.”
74) ”When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.”
75) ”The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.”
76) ”The carrying out into practice of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. ”
77) ”There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity.”
78) ”We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.”
79) ”Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”
80) ”Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
81) ”Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”
82) ”Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
83) ”All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
84) ”Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
85) ”But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
86) ”Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.”
87) ”Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.”
88) ”Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.”
89) ”Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
90) ”Great moments are born great opportunity.”
91) ”So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.”
92) ”You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
93) ”Its not the love you make. It’s the love you give.”
94) ”The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.”
95) ”Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
96) ”and led me to finally recognize that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.”
97) ”Instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
98) ”The by far greater number of human beings are never aware of what is passing around and within them, and millions fall victims of disease and die prematurely just on this account.”
99) ”Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.”
100) ”Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.”
101) ”My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.”
102) ”I [had] admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.”
103) ”Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
104) ”Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.”
105) ”I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.”
106) ”My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.”
107) ”There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.”
108) ”These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.”
109) ”One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
110) ”It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.”
111) ”Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.”
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