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Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

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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Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
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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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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.
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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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