Nikola Tesla Quotes

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.