Quotes By Charles Kettering

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.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.