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Doe Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the…
- No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know,…
- Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
- Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does…
- To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more…
- The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
- Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
- In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not…
- The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
- Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
- Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
- No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is…
- 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…
- Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi