Best Alexander Graham Bell Quotes And Advice

 

 

 

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with concocting and patenting the first practical telephone. He likewise established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.

Here are some of the Best Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

 

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.~ Alexander Graham Bell

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.~ Alexander Graham Bell

The most successful men, in the end, are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.~ Alexander Graham Bell

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and especially to the subject of the speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.~ Alexander Graham Bell

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarrelling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‘oral method’ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‘sign language’ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.~ Alexander Graham Bell

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.~ Alexander Graham Bell

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.~ Alexander Graham Bell

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus~ Alexander Graham Bell

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.~ Alexander Graham Bell

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.~ Alexander Graham Bell

An inventor is a man who looks around the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.~ Alexander Graham Bell

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut~ Alexander Graham Bell

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all around us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.~ Alexander Graham Bell

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!~ Alexander Graham Bell

It is the man who carefully advances step by step…who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.~ Alexander Graham Bell

What this power is, I cannot say… All I know is that it exists.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“America is a country of inventors and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.~ Alexander Graham Bell

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Observe, Remember, Compare.~ Alexander Graham Bell

With every door that closes a new one opens.~ Alexander Graham Bell

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic…~ Alexander Graham Bell

“My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but picked up from such book as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

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The night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.~ Alexander Graham Bell

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Mr Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [First intelligible words were spoken over the telephone]~ Alexander Graham Bell

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to be a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You’ll be certain to find something you have never seen before.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Watson, … if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or to breathe.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun’s disk.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.~ Alexander Graham Bell

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

The inventor…looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.~ Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions~ Alexander Graham Bell

The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.~ Alexander Graham Bell

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time … With some further modification, I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.~ Alexander Graham Bell

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”~ Alexander Graham Bell

 

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