A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. ~Charles Kettering
Intelligence Ignorance
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. ~Charles Kettering
Problem Well Stated
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ~Charles Kettering
Practice Shots Failures
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ~Charles Kettering
Education Seriously Take
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. ~Charles Kettering
Time Progress Present
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ~Charles Kettering
Achievement Brainy Place
motivation inspiration
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. ~Charles Kettering
Business World Want
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles Kettering
Chance You Down
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. ~Charles Kettering
Great Understanding You
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. ~Charles Kettering
Time Man Stupid
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ~Charles Kettering
Life Future I Am
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. ~Charles Kettering
Ocean Storm Ship
One fails forward toward success. ~Charles Kettering
Success Forward Toward
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ~Charles Kettering
People New Things Long