Charles Kettering Life Quotations

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

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.

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.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.