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. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Alfred North Whitehead Read Quote
