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 Wisdom
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. -Alfred North Whitehead Future
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. -Alfred North Whitehead Humor
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. -Alfred North Whitehead Science
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 because your lap is warmer. -Alfred North Whitehead Pet
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. -Alfred North Whitehead Success
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. -Alfred North Whitehead Nature
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. -Alfred North Whitehead Knowledge
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. -Alfred North Whitehead Future
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 Alone
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. -Alfred North Whitehead Thankful
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 in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. -Alfred North Whitehead History
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. -Alfred North Whitehead Art
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. -Alfred North Whitehead Intelligence
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. -Alfred North Whitehead Business
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. -Alfred North Whitehead Intelligence
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. -Alfred North Whitehead Imagination
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. -Alfred North Whitehead Technology
