Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
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Absorb ideas from every source.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best.
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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I failed my way to success.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
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During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
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Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.