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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
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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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.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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.
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