You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy. - Mark Twain
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammad Ali
Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. - Muhammad Ali
Hating people because of their colour is wrong. And it doesn't matter which colour does the hating. It's just plain wrong. - Muhammad Ali
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. - Nikola Tesla
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. - Nikola Tesla
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. - Nikola Tesla
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. - Nikola Tesla
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. - Nikola Tesla
Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. - Nikola Tesla
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. - Nikola Tesla
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile. - Nikola Tesla
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. - Nikola Tesla
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization. - Nikola Tesla