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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Edison :: View Quote View Quote "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Edison Listed in: Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.6  Rate Quote 5 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Edison "Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "There's a way to do it better - find it." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." Top 5 quotes from Thinking "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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