Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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There is always a better way.
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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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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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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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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
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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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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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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 first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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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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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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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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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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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 so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.