Electricity Quotes

• The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Race, Important

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Believe, Light, People

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• Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

  Gregory Dickow

  Inspirational, Faith, Light

  Gregory Dickow (2009). “The Power to Change Today: Simple Secrets to the Satisfied Life”, p.21, Hachette UK

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  What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

  Ray Charles

  Light, Soul, Rooms

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• We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Rich, Candle

  Thomas A. Edison's statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (December 31, 1879), as quoted in Chris J. Magoc "Chronology of Americans and the Environment" (p. 46), 2011.

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• The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

  Christopher Flavin

  Real, Lying, Long

  Christopher Flavin (1986). “Electricity for a developing world: new directions”, Worldwatch Inst

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• Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Writing, Use

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict

  Things In Life, Enough, Achieve

  "How to Utilize Your Mind, Through the Science of Practical Psychology".

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• A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light .

  Abbe Pierre

  Light, Giving, Cost

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• We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

  Fiona Apple

  Wish, Wells, Bolts

  Song: Werewolf, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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• Mysterious affair, electricity.

  Samuel Beckett

  Science, Mysterious, Affair

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Ends and Odds”, p.81, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Doe

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Character, Science, Age

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

  William Faulkner

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Hate, Light, World

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• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

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• Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Age, Modern

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.

  Mother Meera

  Light, Know How, Knows

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• There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Nuclear, Driving

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• Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

  Ambrose Bierce

  Home, Energy, Causes

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.53, 谷月社

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• And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

  Spike Milligan

  Light, Waiting, Boards

  Spike Milligan (2004). “The compulsive Spike Milligan”

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• Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Newton

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• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Heaven, Kingdoms

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• You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Needs, Definitions

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• Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.38, Penguin

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