Thomas Edison, dubbed the “Wizard of Menlo Park,” was one of the greatest inventors the world has known. His nearly 1,100 patents exceed that of any other inventor in American history, and his inventions were foundational across a bewildering array of domains, from electronics to medicine to chemical research.
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
A people group is popularity based just when the humblest and most vulnerable individual can appreciate the most elevated common, financial, and social rights that the greatest and most dominant have.
I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
No theory is good unless it permits not rest but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men women and children.
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when it be obeyed.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
To be satisfied with a little is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure and trouble findeth it not.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Rumi who is one of the greatest Persian poets said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.