Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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• My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for…
• The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
• Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because…
• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
• Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of…
• We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.
• There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
• IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
• I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
• I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
• I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
• Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
• For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does…
• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and…
• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
• Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

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