Thomas Edison Quotes And Sayings

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“Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.”
– Thomas Edison

“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
– Thomas Edison

“It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.”
– Thomas Edison

“It is very beautiful over there!”
– Thomas Edison

“It’s obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.”
– Thomas Edison

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn’t mean it’s useless….”
– Thomas Edison

“Life‘s most soothing things are a child’s goodnight and sweet music….”
– Thomas Edison

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

“Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”
– Thomas Edison

“Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking all day from one laboratory table to another. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.”
– Thomas Edison

“My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….”
– Thomas Edison

“My message to you is: Be courageous! I have lived a long time. I have seen history repeat itself again and again. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.”
– Thomas Edison

“My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding.”
– Thomas Edison

“Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.”
– Thomas Edison

“Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that’s not the place to become discouraged.”
– Thomas Edison

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
– Thomas Edison

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
– Thomas Edison

“Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best….”
– Thomas Edison

“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
– Thomas Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
– Thomas Edison

“Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work….”
– Thomas Edison

“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project 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 …But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.”
– Thomas Edison

“Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.”
– Thomas Edison

“Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
– Thomas Edison

“Religion is all bunk.”
– Thomas Edison

“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
– Thomas Edison

“Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward….”
– Thomas Edison

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
– Thomas Edison

“So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.”
– Thomas Edison

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