Alfred North Whitehead Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.”

“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.”

“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”

“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.”

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”

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

“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.”

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

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