Quote by Orville Wright
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. – Orville Wright

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright

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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas. – Orville Wright

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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. – Orville Wright

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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Ill come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. – Barry White

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