Thomas Edison (1847,-1931)

Thomas Edison quotes

• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas Edison

• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas Edison

• 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.

  Thomas Edison

• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

  Thomas Edison

• There is always a better way.

  Thomas Edison

• The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

  Thomas Edison

• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas Edison

• Non- violence 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 Edison

• Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

  Thomas Edison

• Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

  Thomas Edison

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas Edison

• I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a light bulb.

  Thomas 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 Edison

• I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

  Thomas Edison

• When nails are grown we cut nails not fingers; similarly when misunderstanding raise we cut ego not relations.

  Thomas Edison

• If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  Thomas Edison

• Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best.

  Thomas Edison

• We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas Edison

• Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.

  Thomas Edison

• Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.

  Thomas Edison

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

  Thomas Edison