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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison
There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
Thomas A. Edison
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Thomas A. Edison
They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
Thomas A. Edison
The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
Thomas A. Edison
Absorb ideas from every source.
Thomas A. Edison
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison
The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
Thomas A. Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.
Thomas A. Edison
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
Thomas A. Edison
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas A. Edison
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
Thomas A. Edison
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
When you become quiet, it just dawns on you
Thomas A. Edison
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
Thomas A. Edison
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. ~
Thomas A. Edison
