Top 100 Nikola Tesla Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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4. “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

— Nikola Tesla

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5. “My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain 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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6. “If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”

— Nikola Tesla

7. “Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”

— Nikola Tesla

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8. “Of all things, I liked books best.”

— Nikola Tesla

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9. “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

— Nikola Tesla

10. “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt 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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11. “A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.”

— Nikola Tesla

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12. “I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.”

— Nikola Tesla

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13. “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

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

— Nikola Tesla

15. “Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.”

— Nikola Tesla

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16. “Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.”

— Nikola Tesla

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17. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

— Nikola Tesla

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18. “We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”

— Nikola Tesla

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19. “Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.”

— Nikola Tesla

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20. “I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.”

— Nikola Tesla

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21. “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.”

— Nikola Tesla

22. “My brain is only a receiver in the Universe.”

— Nikola Tesla

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23. “Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.”

— Nikola Tesla

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24. “No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.”

— Nikola Tesla

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25. “Inventors don’t have time for married life.”

— Nikola Tesla

26. “The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.”

— Nikola Tesla

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27. “It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give.”

— Nikola Tesla

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28. “I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.”

— Nikola Tesla

29. “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

— Nikola Tesla

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30. “I have always been ahead of my time.”

— Nikola Tesla

31. “Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.”

— Nikola Tesla

32. “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

— Nikola Tesla

33. “Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

— Nikola Tesla

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34. “Great moments are born from great opportunity.”

— Nikola Tesla

35. “When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.”

— Nikola Tesla

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36. “You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”

— Nikola Tesla

37. “The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.”

— Nikola Tesla

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38. “Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”

— Nikola Tesla

39. “The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”

— Nikola Tesla

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40. “Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.”

— Nikola Tesla

41. “Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.”

— Nikola Tesla

42. “The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.”

— Nikola Tesla

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43. “Everyone should consider his 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

44. “In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being.”

— Nikola Tesla

45. “There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.”

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

47. “My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.”

— Nikola Tesla

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48. “Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.”

— Nikola Tesla

49. “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.”

— Nikola Tesla

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50. “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

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