Nikola Tesla Quotes

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

Nikola Tesla

• Nature
• Study
• Intellect
• Govern

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• Study first, play afterwards.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Play
  • Study
  • First

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• We are not by nature cruel.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Nature
  • Cruel

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Team

• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Man

• Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Best

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  

  Sallust
  • May
  • Nature
  • Law

• On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Green

• The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Reality

• There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Different
  • Nature

• Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

  

  Augustus
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Wife

• There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

  

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Nature

• Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.

  

  Germany Kent
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Less

• A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

  

  Denis Donoghue
  • Mystery
  • Expression
  • Metaphor

• There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Nature
  • Study
  • Intellect