whitehead Quotes

“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”

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

“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.”

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