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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
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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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
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In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
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There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.
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Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
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It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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