An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by… — 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
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
