Alexander Graham Bell

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

— Alexander Graham Bell

It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not…

— 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…

— Alexander Graham Bell

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

— 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…

— 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…

— Alexander Graham Bell

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

— 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…

— Alexander Graham Bell

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants…

— Alexander Graham Bell

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a…

— Alexander Graham Bell

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

— 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…

— Alexander Graham Bell

A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

— 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…

— Alexander Graham Bell

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who…

— Alexander Graham Bell

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

— Alexander Graham Bell

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

— 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…

— Alexander Graham Bell

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

— Alexander Graham Bell

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and…

— Alexander Graham Bell

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me…

— Alexander Graham Bell