Quotes - Anders (Mesa, AZ) Showing 1-12 of 12

#1

“When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: philosophy

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#2

“When [a man] thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion.”
― Plato

tags: contention, debate, philosophy, rhetoric

4 likes

#3

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

42318 likes

#4

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: inspirational, perseverance, tenacity

1591 likes

#5

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: thinking, willful-ignorance

1251 likes

#6

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: laziness, opportunity, work

1278 likes

#7

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: dedication, inspiration

809 likes

#8

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison

824 likes

#9

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
― Thomas Edison

tags: inspirational, wise-words

579 likes

#10

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: invention, science

396 likes

#11

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
― Thomas A. Edison