Psychology Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

15 Psychology quotes by Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas A. Edison offers 15 reflections that treat mental effort like an experiment. His practical, inventive tone highlights the role of curiosity, persistence, and creative problem‑solving in shaping our inner world.

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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,

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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man…

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Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

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

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

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The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to…

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My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a…

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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind…

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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading…

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We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of…

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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public…

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“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as…

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Friendship is the heaven of life.

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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours…

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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

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I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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