托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生（Thomas Alva Edison），出生于美国俄亥俄州米兰镇，逝世于美国新泽西州西奥兰治。 发明家、企业家。
爱迪生是人类历史上第一个利用大量生产原则和电气工程研究的实验室来进行从事发明专利而对世界产生深远影响的人。 他发明的留声机、电影摄影机、电灯对世界有极大影响。 他一生的发明共有两千多项，拥有专利一千多项。 爱迪生被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物第9名。
1、If you don’t learn to think when you are young, you will never learn.
如果你年轻时不学会思考，那就永远不会。
2、The so-called genius, that is a lie, it is hard work.
所谓天才，那就是假话，勤奋的工作才是实在的。
3、Reading for wisdom is like gymnastics to the body.
读书对于智慧，就像体操对于身体一样。
4、The cultivation of personality is the main purpose of education, although it is not the only purpose.
性格的培育是教育的主要目的，虽然它不能算是唯一的目的。
5、There is no real value in the world, and it can be obtained through hard work and hard work.
世间没有一种具有真正价值的东西，可以不经过艰苦辛勤的劳动而能够得到的。
6、Surprise is the seed of science.
惊奇就是科学的种子。
7、When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember: there may still be.
当你已穷尽所有可能性时，要记住：还是有可能。
8、Friendship can increase happiness, relieve the pain; because it can multiply our joy, sharing our worries.
友谊能增进快乐，减轻痛苦; 因为它能倍增我们的喜悦，分担我们的烦忧。
9、The whole process of the development of the whole process of the church we believe. We just need to follow it. This is a guide for everyone, as long as you listen carefully, you will be able to realize the meaning of accurate.
事实的发展全过程教会我们信念。 我们只需要遵循它即可。 这是对每个人的指引，只要悉心聆听，就能悟出准确的含义。
10、I have never made an accidental invention in my life, all of my inventions are the result of careful and rigorous testing.
我平生从来没有做出过一次偶然的发明，我的一切发明，都是经过深思熟虑严格试验的结果。
11、Failure is what I need, and it’s just as valuable to me as success.
失敗也是我需要的，它和成功對我一樣有價值。
12、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as chief of staff, with confidence for glory and hope as your sentry.
若希望成功，當以恒心為良友，以經驗為參謀，以信心為光榮，以希望為哨兵。
13、The most obvious sign of the great man is his strong will.
偉大人物最明顯的標誌，就是他堅強的意志。
14、I’m not interested in God. The Bible is artificial.
我對上帝不感興趣，聖經是人造的。
15、There’s always a better way.
總會有更好的辦法。
16、Personality is the difference, the difference is to create.
個性就是差別，差別就是創造。
17、There are many failures, people do not know when they give up, how close to success.
有許多失敗的人，並不知道他們放棄的時候，距離成功有多近 。
18、Those who wish to honor and comfort him in his late years must think of the day when he was young, and, in his youth, he would remember that there was a time when he was young.
凡是希望榮譽而舒適地度過晚年的人，他必須在年輕時想到有一天會衰老；這樣，在年老時，他也會記得曾有過年輕。
19、Restless and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
好動與不滿足是進步的第一必需品。
20、Life in the world is short, to this short life, our best reward is work.
人生在世界是短暫的，對這短暫的人生，我們最好的報答就是工作。
21、Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most effective method for the pursuit of success, is to always try again.
我們最大的弱點就是輕言放棄，追求成功最有效的方法，就是永遠再多試一下。
22、A good character is more expensive than gold; the former is a natural gift, the latter is a gift of fate.
良好的性格貴于黃金；前者是自然的天賦，後者是命運的賜予。
23、Achievement is the only real pleasure in life.
有所成就是人生唯一的真正的樂趣。
24、If you can name a person who is completely satisfied, I can tell you that he is a failure.
若你能舉出一個徹底滿足的人，我可以告訴你他就是個失敗的人。
25、Nonviolence leads us to the highest moral code, which is the goal of all evolution. Unless we stop hurting all our lives, we’re still just some barbarians.
非暴力引領我們達至最高的道德規範，這是所有進化的目標。除非我們停止傷害其他一切生命，我們仍然只是些野蠻人。
26、No a matter of expediency can make people to escape the real labor — thinking.
沒有任何權宜之計可以讓人逃避真正的勞動——思考。
27、I am willing to absorb ideas from all sources, usually from the place where the last person to give up.
我樂於從所有來源吸收構想，通常是從上一個人放棄的地方開始。
28、Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body, exercise makes you healthy, reading makes people wise.
讀書之於思想猶如運動之於身體，運動使人健壯，讀書使人賢達。
29、No matter when, anyway, I won’t allow myself a little get disheartened.
無論何時，不管怎樣，我也絕不允許自己有一點灰心喪氣。
30、My philosophy of life is work, I want to reveal the secrets of nature, and serve as a human. In our lifetime, I don’t know what else is better than that.
我的人生哲学是工作，我要揭示大自然的奥秘，并以此为人类服务。 我们在世的短暂的一生中，我不知道还有什么比这种服务更好的了。
31、I want to reveal the secrets of nature, to the benefit of mankind. I think that in our short life, this is the best contribution.
我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。 我认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。
32、Who would think too high self-esteem, cannot achieve success, and success must cultivate calm attitude, attention to everything, this is a key to success.
登高必自卑，自视太高不能达到成功，因而成功者必须培养泰然心态，凡事专注，这才是成功的要点。
33、If I deny the existence of God, I would just profane my knowledge, I believe that there is a universal existence full, omniscient and omnipotent, sovereign god.
假如我否认神的存在，我就等于亵渎我的知识，我深信有一位全智全能，充满万有，至高至尊的神存在。
34、There is no failure, only a little bit closer to success.
没有失败，只有离成功更近一点儿。
35、Hypocrisy and fraud are the mother of all evils.
虚伪及欺诈是一切罪恶之母。
36、What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。
37、The most direct move to the heart or the United states. Beauty, immediately in the imagination, permeated with a kind of inner joy and satisfaction.
最能直接打动心灵的还是美。 美立刻在想象里渗透一种内在的欣喜和满足。
38、Most people don’t always find opportunities, because opportunities always wear thick coats and look like hard work.
大多数人总是无法发现机遇，因为机遇总是穿着厚厚的外套，看上去像是辛苦工作。
39、Music is the only can indulge without damaging the moral and religious concepts enjoy.
音乐是唯一可以纵情而不会损害道德和宗教观念的享受。
40、If people are in sympathy with charity, humanitarian acts to remove the curse, it can eliminate half-life disaster.
如果人们都能以同情慈善，以人道的行径来剔除祸根，则人生的灾患便可消灭过半。
41、Life is too short, the way it is, cannot posthaste?
人生太短暂了，事情是这样的，能不兼程而进吗？
42、Sense of honor is a kind of excellent quality, so only those noble temperament and positive or well-educated people have.
荣誉感是一种优良的品质，因而只有那些禀性高尚积极向上或受过良好教育的人才具备。
43、I am always reluctant to abandon my struggle for life, I strive to experience extreme attention, especially by overcoming the difficulties after happy, a person must go through difficulties, then stepped into prosperity, just feel good and comfortable.
我始终不愿抛弃我的奋斗生活，我极端重视奋斗得来的经验，尤其是战胜困难后所得到的愉快，一个人要先经过困难，然后踏进顺境，才觉得受用舒适。
44、Vision without execution is just an illusion.
没有执行的愿景只是幻觉。
45、Modesty is not only an ornament, but a guard of virtue.
谦逊不仅是一种装饰品，也是美德的护卫。
46、Where I failed thousands of times, I just found out thousands of ways that can’t be successful in love!
我哪里是失败了几千次，我只是找出了几千种不能成功地获得爱情的方法罢了！
47、If I have more or less incentive to some people, to our work, have more or less or less expanded the scope of human understanding, and added a joy to the world, then I will feel satisfied.
如果我曾经或多或少地激励了一些人的，努力，我们的工作，曾经或多或少或少地扩展了人类的理解范围，因而给这个世界增添了一分欢乐，那我也就感到满足了。
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