Quotes from Thomas A. Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

The dove is my emblem.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

What you are will show in what you do.

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

The radio craze will die out in time.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

Religion is all bunk.

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

I never quit until I get what I want.

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.