461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.