Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Consider data without prejudice.
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.