461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

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.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.