461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

I never quit until I get what I want.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.