Form Quotes by Charles Kettering

Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing…

— Charles Kettering

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

— Charles Kettering

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

— Charles Kettering

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

— Charles Kettering

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way…

— Charles Kettering

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

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

— 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…

— Charles Kettering

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

— Charles Kettering

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

— 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,…

— Charles Kettering

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

— Charles Kettering