Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
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Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
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Religion is all bunk.
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I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
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Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.
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It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
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Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.