Nikola Tesla Quotes
"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""Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain""The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power""If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world""The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains""Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.""Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment""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 always tend to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.""The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.""If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.""The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.""Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.""Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.""The scientists of today have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.""We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.""The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.""The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.""With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look — for dizzier heights.""Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves."