Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
Thomas A. Edison
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
Businessperson
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Film Director
Inventor
Lighting Designer
Mathematician
Physicist
Screenwriter
Milan
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison
Edison Thomas Alva
Time
Inventors
Bouquets
Inventor
Throw
Public
Happy
More quotes by Thomas A. Edison
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
Thomas A. Edison
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
Thomas A. Edison
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
Thomas A. Edison
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Thomas A. Edison
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
Thomas A. Edison
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
Thomas A. Edison
I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
Thomas A. Edison
Vision without execution is delusion.
Thomas A. Edison
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is the heaven of life.
Thomas A. Edison
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
Thomas A. Edison
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
Thomas A. Edison
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison
Work while others are wishing.
Thomas A. Edison
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Thomas A. Edison
