Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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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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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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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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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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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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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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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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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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 owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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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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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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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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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
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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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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.