Alfred North Whitehead's Quotes

Alfred North Whitehead's Quotes 46

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which...

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is...

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment...

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat...

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We...

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which...

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others....

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Speech is human nature itself with none of the artificiality of written...

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is...

Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on...

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