7/25/2021 Nikola Tesla Quotes (Author of My Inventions)

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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency Like
and vibration.” 
― Nikola Tesla
tags: energy, frequency, vibration 1379 likes

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”  Like

― Nikola Tesla
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“Of all things, I liked books best.”  Like

― Nikola Tesla
tags: books 719 likes

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more Like
progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” 
― Nikola Tesla
tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science 703 likes

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think Like
clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” 
― Nikola Tesla
tags: insanity 694 likes

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”  Like

― Nikola Tesla
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“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”  Like
― Nikola Tesla
tags: future, present 601 likes

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain Like
knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this
core, but I know that it exists.” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”  Like

― Nikola Tesla
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“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by Like
married men.” 
― Nikola Tesla

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tags: inventions, marriage, nikola-tesla, passion 418 likes

“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals Like
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...” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“Everyone should consider his Like

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.” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt Like
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.” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”  Like
― Nikola Tesla
tags: insanity, sanity 337 likes

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they Like
separate, man is no more” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and Like
accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked,
is mine” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — Like
only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the
struggle.” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before Like
applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept
this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of
individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a
unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the
firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I
cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend
hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an
enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care
least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a
whole?
For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of
religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among
men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the
Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Metaphysical proofs
are, however, not the only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this
idea. Science, too, recognizes this connectedness of separate individuals, though
not quite in the same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a
constellation are one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally
confirmed in times to come, when our means and methods for investigating
psychical and other states and phenomena shall have been brought to great
perfection. Still more: this one human being lives on and on. The individual is
ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies
the profound difference between the individual and the whole.” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result Like
from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's
point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in
their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or
less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist
this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of
others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is
most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.” 
― Nikola Tesla
tags: peace, understanding 217 likes

“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains Like
certain known factors.” 
― Nikola Tesla
tags: humor, inspiration, inspirational, life, science 215 likes

“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of Like
yesterday are today common occurrences” 
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
tags: inspirational, psychological 201 likes

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“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”  Like

― Nikola Tesla
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“Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate Like
purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of
human nature to human needs.” 
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
tags: electricity, science 187 likes

“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key Like
to the universe.” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander Like
off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no
relation to reality. ” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This Like
caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for
it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the
preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. The pressure of occupation
and the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through
all the gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways.
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they
are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death
of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise
care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And
what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.” 
― Nikolai Tesla
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“Nature may reach the same result in many ways. Like a wave in the physical Like
world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of
organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the
speed of light, at times, again, so slowly that for ages and ages it seems to stay,
passing through processes of a complexity inconceivable to men, but in all its
forms, in all its stages, its energy ever and ever integrally present. A single ray of
light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have
altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have
transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the
processes in Nature. In no way can we get such an overwhelming idea of the
grandeur of Nature than when we consider, that in accordance with the law of the
conservation of energy, throughout the Infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance,

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and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.”
― Nikola Tesla
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“I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought Like
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.” 
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
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“The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man Like
remains.” 
― Nikola Tesla
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“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.” 
― Nikola Tesla

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