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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
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The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
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