Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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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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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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There is always a better way.
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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
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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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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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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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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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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
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Work while others are wishing.
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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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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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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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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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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.