For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
