There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- 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
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
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 A Edison
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas A Edison
Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress.
- Thomas A Edison
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes.
- 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
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas A Edison
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
- Thomas A Edison
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
- Thomas A 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 A Edison
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas A Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
- Thomas A Edison
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas A Edison
I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
- Thomas A Edison
We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions?
- 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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A Edison
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas A Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas A Edison
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
- Thomas A Edison
Nonviolence 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 A Edison
I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
- Thomas A Edison
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas A Edison
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A Edison
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Thomas A Edison
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
- Thomas A Edison
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
- Thomas A Edison
