"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere." ― Charles Kettering Topic(s): Intelligence More From Charles Kettering "My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid." "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously." More In Intelligence "That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence."― Stephen Hadley "To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance."― Paul Harris "It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."― Alfred North Whitehead