461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

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….

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

The money one gets for selling one’s soul is always spent in deadening one’s conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

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

We haven’t failed. We now know a thousand things that won’t work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

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

I am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.