Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Ignorance
Open
Education
Cocksure
Going
Frontier
Mind
Frontiers
Always
Thoughtful
Men
Uncertainty
Forward

More quotes by Charles Kettering

Image
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
Image
A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
Charles Kettering
Image
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
Charles Kettering
Image
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
Charles Kettering
Image
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
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.
Charles Kettering
Image
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
Charles Kettering
Image
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
Image
Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
Charles Kettering
Image
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.
Charles Kettering
Image
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
Image
If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Charles Kettering
Image
Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
Charles Kettering
Image
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering
Image
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
Charles Kettering
Image
Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
Charles Kettering
Image
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
Charles Kettering
Image
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.
Charles Kettering
Image
And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
Charles Kettering