Thomas Edison Quotes And Sayings

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“Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose…”
– Thomas Edison

“To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”
– Thomas Edison

“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
– Thomas Edison

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
– Thomas Edison

“To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother’s keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .”
– Thomas Edison

“To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.”
– Thomas Edison

“To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.”
– Thomas Edison

“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.”
– Thomas Edison

“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge….”
– Thomas Edison

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”
– Thomas Edison

“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.”
– Thomas Edison

“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
– Thomas Edison

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
– Thomas Edison

“We have but two ears and one mouth so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.”
– Thomas Edison

“We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries – discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .”
– Thomas Edison

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work”
– Thomas Edison

“We really haven’t got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the “Hereafter.” Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term.”
– Thomas Edison

“We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.”
– Thomas Edison

“What man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.”
– Thomas Edison

“What you are will show in what you do.”
– Thomas Edison

“Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.”
– Thomas Edison

“When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.”
– Thomas Edison

“When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.”
– Thomas Edison

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”
– Thomas Edison

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”
– Thomas Edison

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