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There are many lessons one has to learn before he/she becomes a professional pilot, a professional engineer or even a professional designer. Little more than 100 years of aviation have brought up many wise word of brilliant aviators. On this page I would like to remember some of  those words. At the moment there is no specific order since the amount might be too little for any breakdown into chapters or directed to some major topics. Just let's start with it and see how this approach will be accepted. Some word have deep meaning and wisdom but some are just funny.

Mathematics up to the present day have been quite useless to us in regards to flying.

(from the fourteenth Annual report of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, 1879)

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There can be no daubt that the inclined plane is the true principle of aerial navigation by mechanical means.

(Sir George Cayley, 1843)

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Nobody will fly for a tousend years!  (Wilbur Wright, 1901, in a fit of despair)

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SUCCESS FOUR FLIGHTS THURDAY MORNING ALL AGAINST TWENTY ONE MILE WIND STARTED FROM LEVEL WITH ENGINE POWER ALONE AVERAGE SPEED THROUGH AIR THIRTY ONE MILES LONGEST 57 SECONDS INFORM PRESS HOME CHRISTMAS.

(Orvelle Wright, a telegram, with the original misprints, from Orvelle to his father, December 17, 1903)

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Engineering: The application of scientific principles to practicle ends. From the Latin word "ingenium", meaning inborn talent and skill, ingenious.

(from The American Heritage Dictionary of English Language, 1969)

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First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flights, and nations so knit together that they will grow be next-door neighbors. This conquest of the air will prove, ultimately, to be man's greatest and most glorious triumph. What railays have done for nations, airways will do for the world.

(Claude Grahame-White, British aviator, 1914)

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I began to realize that there might be something after all to Newtons Law.

(Robert H. Goddard, 1902)

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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

(Robert H. Goddard, at his high school graduation, 1904)

Be your own greatest critic. Accept each flight as a challenge.

(Jimm Web, author of FLY THE WING)

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The well known word "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be," might be true everywhere else on ground and and even just before flight but during flight it's only how good you really are on that particular day at that particular moment. Nothing else.

Flugkapitän Gerd Ritter in seinem Buch-Projekt "What next -aviation at the crossroads".

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Do not put your cleverness in front of the communication.

Paul Arden, a creative genius

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Getting fired can be a positive career move.

Paul Arden

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It's not what you know, it's how you know.

Paul Arden

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The Perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Paul Arden

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Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

Paul Arden

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ENERGY. It's 75% of the job. If you haven't got it, be nice.

Paul Arden

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Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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There are no short cuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

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Those who lack courage will always find a philosophy to justufy it.

Albert Camus

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If Everything seems under control you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

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We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.

Anais Nin

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Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.

Paul Arden

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