Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 11

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• When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mouths, Remember, Jonah

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• I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

  Thomas A. Edison

  Way, Causes

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• My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Ideas, Giving

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• Religion is all bunk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  "What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.

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• It is very beautiful over there. (last words)

  Thomas A. Edison

  Beautiful, Lasts, Last Words

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• The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

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  Crazy, Civilization, Trying

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• It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Men, Issues

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• My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Purpose, Want

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• An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Average, Mark, Persons

  "Coins for Clemens: Collaborative Fundraising for Mark Twain" by Cindy Lovell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2015.

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• I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ninety Nine

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• I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

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  Motivational, Hard Work, Discipline

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• Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Tired, Science, Giving

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• The value of a good idea is in using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Good Ideas, Values

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• No Such Thing as Bad Results

  Thomas A. Edison

  Results

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• I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Being Positive

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• None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Ninety Nine, Needs

  "Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James D. Newton, 1987.

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• Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Hallucinations, Execution

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• The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Selfish, Believe, Religion

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• Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

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  Light, Able, Next

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• It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.

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  New York, Science, Light

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• I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

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  Personality, Earth, Building

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• Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Kindness, Quality, And Love

  New York Times, October 2, 1910.

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

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  Religious, People, Atheism

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