Thomas Edison quotes - page 4

There is no substitute for hard work. (Thomas Edison)
Religion is all bunk.
Thomas Edison
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas Edison
Few men, indeed, had thought in terms of war. Then Paine wrote 'Common Sense,' an anonymous tract which immediately stirred the fires of liberty.
Thomas Edison
I've been in the inventor business for 33 years and my experience is that for every problem the Lord has made, He has also made a solution. If you and I can't find the solution, the let's honestly admit that you and I are damn fools but why blame it on the Lord and say He created something 'impossible.
Thomas Edison
We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have - everything - favors the idea of what religionists call the "Hereafter."
Thomas Edison
Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen.
Thomas Edison
His Bible was the open face of nature, the broad skies, the green hills. He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds.
Thomas Edison
We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions?
Thomas Edison
We never had a sounder intelligence in this Republic. He was the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible.
Thomas Edison
He has been called an atheist, but atheist he was not. (Thomas Edison)
If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill.
Thomas Edison
The torch which he handed on will not be extinguished.
Thomas Edison
Looking back to those times we cannot, without much reading, clearly gauge the sentiment of the Colonies.
Thomas Edison
It is absurd to say our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people.
Thomas Edison
It is probable that we should have had the Revolution without Tom Paine. Certainly it could not be forestalled, once he had spoken.
Thomas Edison
The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty - who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause - can be permanently obscured by such attacks.
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Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book.
Thomas Edison
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whisky.
Thomas Edison
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas Edison
If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. ... It is absurd to say our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people. (Thomas Edison)
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
Thomas Edison
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
Thomas Edison
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 Edison
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
Thomas Edison