Charles F. Kettering Quotes
Most popular Charles F. Kettering Quotes
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
Learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
I object to people running down the future. I'm going to live all the rest of my life there.
The difference between intelligence and education is this: Intelligence will make you a good living.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our life there.
The difference between intelligence and an education is this — that intelligence will make you a good living.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement.
There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
