103 Quotes by Charles F. Kettering

Learn how to fail intelligently.

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

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

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

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.

Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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 they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don’t, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

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.