412 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
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The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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