Charles Kettering 20 Top Insightful Audio Quotes, Sayings Opportunities, Imagination, Intelligence, Education

“ The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.” Charles Kettering

“ I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can’t keep on doing what you are doing now. ” Charles Kettering

“ Don’t be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don’t follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it’s enough. ” Charles Kettering

“ Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing. ” Charles Kettering

“ Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world. ” Charles Kettering

“ It is the ‘follow through’ that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop. ” Charles Kettering

“ It is man’s destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth. ” Charles Kettering

“ Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must. ” Charles Kettering

“ If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place. ” 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. ” Charles Kettering

“ Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. ” Charles Kettering

“ 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

“ People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.” Charles Kettering

“ The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them: but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest. ” Charles Kettering

“ The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won’t do much for you at all. ” Charles Kettering

“ All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. ” Charles Kettering

“ 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

“ I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.” Charles Kettering

“ You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.” Charles Kettering

“ The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.” Charles Kettering