Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. - Alfred North Whitehead

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

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. - Alfred North Whitehead

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. - Alfred North Whitehead

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. - Alfred North Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. - Alfred North Whitehead

There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. - Alfred North Whitehead

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. - Alfred North Whitehead

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. - Alfred North Whitehead

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. - Alfred North Whitehead

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