Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.
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Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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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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Vision without execution is delusion.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.