All Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison in
Work
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison in
Friendship
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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.
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 in
Business
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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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 A. Edison
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Thomas A. Edison in
War
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Thomas A. Edison
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