Thomas A. Edison Quotes

“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 .”

“Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.”

“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.”

“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.”

“What you are will show in what you do.”

“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”

“Sticking to it is the genius.”

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.”

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

“There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.”

“I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.”

“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”

“There is no substitute for hard work.”

“Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.”

“Youth doesn't take advice.”

“Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.”

“Never go to sleepwithout a request to your subconscious.”

“Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.”

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”

“Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination”

“I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.”

“Friendship is the heaven of life.”

“There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.”

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.”