Wright Brothers Quotes

“Thousands of men had thought about flying machines and a few had even built machines which they called flying machines, but these were guilty of almost everything except flying.”

“What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery.”

“After these years of experience I look with amazement upon our audacity in attempting flights with a new and untried machine under such circumstances.”

“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”

“If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.”

“Man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery.”

“There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings. More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost if you can conceive of such a combination.”

“Do not let yourself be forced into doing anything before you are ready.”