Age Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“When self-knowledge is realized, all worldly knowledge ceases to exist.”

— Shiva Negi

“Initially, you grasp [knowledge] through the ‘light’ of the intellect and then the understanding arises, and thereafter a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence…

— Dada Bhagwan

“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the dogmas of…

— B.S. Murthy

“But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural…

— Leo Strauss

“Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.”

— Paulo Freire

“Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical,…

— Neil Postman

“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may…

— G.K. Chesterton

Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error…

— Anonymous

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .…

— Laurens van der Post

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common…

— Francis Bacon

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress…

— Hugh Nibley