Nikola Tesla Quotes

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

Nikola Tesla

• Knowledge
• Humanity
• Ignorance
• Buddha
• Human Movement

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• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

  Kara Swisher
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• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

  

  Yannick Noah
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• I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Good
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• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
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• If there is one quality that I find is more essential to a successful and happy life than any other, it is empathy. It is at the core of family stability and love. I’ve never had a couple come to me and say, 'I want a divorce; my partner understands me.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
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• L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Father
  • Weird
  • Motivated

• Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Men
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• Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

  

  Daryn Kagan
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• I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nature
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• All men by nature desire knowledge.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks they're a little in control, focusing and trying to make a specific point. But even then, when you look at it a few years later, you realize you were just working through some of the usual feelings you were going through during that time.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Realize

• Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity
  • Ignorance