Alfred North Whitehead

"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."

"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."

"You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge; but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom."

"Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination."

"The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts with the runway of everyday experience."

"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."

"No part of the world is so remote as to escape the curiosity of human enquiry."

"To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract."

"There is a quality of life which lies beyond mere existence. That is what we call beauty."

"The source of all evil is the failure to understand."

"The distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion of consciousness."

"In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true."

"Students are alive and teachers are dead."

"Complexity which defeats analysis may succumb to the magic of imagination."

"The measure of civilization is not the census nor the size of cities, but kind of men the country turns out."

"Success means that you continue working as though the work is difficult and you should not be tired."

"Patience is the virtue that saves the world."

"There are no rules concerning when a person becomes important."

"Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of greatness."

"We are only capable of appreciating our fellow beings when we try to understand them."

"Courage is a manifestation of faith in the worth of undertaking some apparently hopeless task."

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."

"Creative novelty is an initiative of occasions in the creative advance of nature."

"The modern world has achieved a degree of technical power which exceeds anything available to previous ages."

"Peace requires more than the absence of war. It requires construction and creation."

"The understanding of one's own individual nature is the beginning of all wisdom."

"In most modern instances, busy-ness is a form of mental illness."

"Metaphysics is the search for the general principles of nature and experience."

"Love is the ultimate beauty, the ultimate truth, and the ultimate way."

"The consequences of ideas are often far removed from the idea itself."