Thomas Edison Quotes And Sayings

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“Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.”
– Thomas Edison

“Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we’re just trying to accomplish something.”
– Thomas Edison

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
– Thomas Edison

“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.”
– Thomas Edison

“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”
– Thomas Edison

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
– Thomas Edison

“The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill…”
– Thomas Edison

“The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand – without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it….”
– Thomas Edison

“The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.”
– Thomas Edison

“The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me….”
– Thomas Edison

“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.”
– Thomas Edison

“The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.”
– Thomas Edison

“The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.”
– Thomas Edison

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
– Thomas Edison

“The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization…. Such war-making weapons should be developed – but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation.”
– Thomas Edison

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
– Thomas Edison

“The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.”
– Thomas Edison

“There ain’t no rules around here, we’re trying to accomplish something.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is a great directing head of people and things — a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is almost no limit to which man will not go to avoid thinking.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is always a better way.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is far more danger in a public monopoly than there is in a private monopoly, for when government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayer. The Government never really goes into business, for it never makes ends meet, and that is the first requisite of business. It just mixes a little business with a lot of politics, and no one ever gets a chance to find out what is actually going on.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is no substitute for hard work.”
– Thomas Edison

“There is time for everything.”
– Thomas Edison

“There’s a way to do better… find it.”
– Thomas Edison

“They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.”
– Thomas Edison

“This problem, once solved, will be simple.”
– Thomas Edison

“Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. … All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.”
– Thomas Edison

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