misattributed quotes

History23 minutes ago

‘Be the change’ is not Gandhi’s line. His 1913 South Africa article said something longer

Gandhi wrote "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change" in 1913; the short slogan first shows up with a Brooklyn teacher in 1970.

History3 hours ago

Edison’s ‘10,000 ways that won’t work’ began as a 1910 battery story, not a light bulb

The earliest record, a 1910 biography, has Edison telling associate Walter S. Mallory he knew "several thousand things that won't work" after a decade-long battery hunt.