Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
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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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No Such Thing as Bad Results.
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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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The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.
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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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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... 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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The radio craze will die out in time.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
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Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.