Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Non violence leads to the highest ethics,

which is the goal of all evolution.

Until we stop harming all other living beings,

we are still savages.

To have a great idea,

have a lot of them.

What you are will show in what you do.

Religion is all bunk.

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,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The object of all work is production or accomplishment

and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system,

planning, intelligence, and honest purpose,

as well as perspiration.

Seeming to do is not doing.

I never did a day's work in my life.

It was all fun.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because

it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

To invent,

you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Anything that won't sell,

I don't want to invent.

Its sale is proof of utility,

and utility is success.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine

but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet,

and the cause and prevention of disease.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship

I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Hell, there are no rules here

we're trying to accomplish something.

Your worth consists in what you are

and not in what you have.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

The worst has been done in turmoil.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is

the first necessity of progress.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.