Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me – the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love – He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us – nature did it all – not the gods of the religions.
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Do the thing and the power will come.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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I never quit until I get what I want.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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I start where the last man left off.
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I try not to invent things that people don't need.
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!