Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

Thomas Alva Edison (59)

Birth:	11th February, 1847
Death:	18th October, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Inventor

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• I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.

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

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

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

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  Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

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

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  The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will Cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

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• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

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

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• To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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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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• 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.

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• The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

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• I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

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

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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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• Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.

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• Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

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