My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
NIKOLA TESLAMost persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
More Nikola Tesla Quotes
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Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
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The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
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Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!
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The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries.
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We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
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If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn’t sweat as much.
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
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Inventors don’t have time for married life.
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