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Man Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- 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…
- Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
- I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
- The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
- A man’s best friend is a good wife.
- Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
- The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
- My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I…
- Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill…
- From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain…
- Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
- Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work…
- A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison…
- The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
- There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
- Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- 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,…
- Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
- I start where the last man left off.
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- 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…
- One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find…
- All bibles are man-made.
- Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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