Quotes by : Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose....

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.....

...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above....