Alfred North Whitehead

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The discrepancy between the scientific and the personal points of view is the essential problem of philosophy."

"Patience is required to achieve anything worthwhile."

"The ultimate principle of religion is that nothing matters except the empire of God."

"Specialization is the death of the general educated man."

"Vigilance in the pursuit of understanding is the price of wisdom."

"The development of living organisms is an adventure, a struggle toward more adequate realities."

"Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."

"The clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity."

"Life is an adventure, but not all who wander are lost in it."

"The noblest thing a person can do is to ennoble their ordinary work."

"Life trims its expectations to the probable."

"Every organism requires an environment."

"There is a time for sleeping and a time for waking—up."

"Depth requires contrast; light requires shadow; beauty requires asymmetry."

"True courage is the outcome of a generous passion for justice."

"The only unconditioned truth is the truth that creation is possible."

"Conversive prehension is the transfer of conceptual feeling into physical feeling."

"Sleep is the best meditation."

"Action is imperative."

"There is only one craving which mankind possesses in common: the craving to be appreciated."

"The security of parents lies in the appreciation of their children."

"Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty."

"The test of truth is its power of thought to endow fact with meaning."

"All modern philosophy stems from Descartes; and all education from the Greeks."

"Moral education is impossible without the habitual vision of greatness."

"Intellectual culture requires above all things the widest possible vision."

"Everything of importance is easy to measure except the things that are easy to measure."

"The habit of expressing yourself in words leads to clearer thoughts."

"The alternative to discomfort is stagnation."