More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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 will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.
Observe, Remember, Compare.
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.
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!
When one door closes, another one opens.
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
