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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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.
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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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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.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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.
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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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