Alfred North Whitehead quotes

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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

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 of science that it equips the future for its duties.

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

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

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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 of science that it equips the future for its duties.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.