Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Famous Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
Born: 1847-02-11
Died: 1931-10-18
Thomas A. Edison Biography
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.
- Thomas A. Edison
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All Bibles are man-made.
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
- Thomas A. Edison
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- Thomas A. Edison
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Thomas A. Edison
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Thomas A. Edison
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas A. Edison
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