62 Quotes by Thomas Edison

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

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

Make it a practice to keep on the lookout for novel and interesting ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you are working on.

Anything I Have begun is always on my mind, and I am not easy while away from it until it is finished.

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

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

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.

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