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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.
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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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
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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 instincts but until this has occurred, words do not count.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
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You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
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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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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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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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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
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[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.
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