Quotes from Thomas A. Edison

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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.

Do the thing and the power will come.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.