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

Thomas A. Edison

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas A. Edison

“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” 

Thomas A. Edison

“I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.”

Thomas A. Edison

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thomas A. Edison

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”

Thomas A. Edison

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Thomas A. Edison

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”

Thomas A. Edison

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thomas A. Edison

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

Thomas A. 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 A. Edison

“I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb', etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly.

Thomas A. Edison

“I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic ... It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine's works in my boyhood ... it was, indeed, a revelation to me to read that great thinker's views on political and theological subjects. Paine educated me, then, about many matters of which I had never before thought. I remember, very vividly, the flash of enlightenment that shone from Paine's writings, and I recall thinking, at that time, 'What a pity these works are not today the schoolbooks for all children!' My interest in Paine was not satisfied by my first reading of his works. I went back to them time and again, just as I have done since my boyhood days.”

Thomas A. Edison


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