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Thousand Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
- 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…
- The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people…
- I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light…
- We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu…
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
More Thousand Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach
- The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than… — John Adams
- I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. — Charles Baudelaire
- Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. — Joseph Addison
- What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker