Alexander Graham Bell

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

“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel...”

“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...”

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

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determine...”

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

“America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”

“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...”