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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Action Quotes

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

- Alfred North Whitehead | The Bible Quotes

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Civilization Quotes

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Civilization Quotes

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Conversation Quotes

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Education Quotes

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Education Quotes

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Humour and Humorists Quotes

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Ideas Quotes

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Ignorance Quotes

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Imagination Quotes

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Life Quotes

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Morality and Ethics Quotes

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Philosophy Quotes

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Power Quotes

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Progress Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Progress Quotes

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Science and Technology Quotes

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Society and Social Quotes

There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Truth Quotes

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Work Quotes

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Writers and Writing Quotes

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Youth Quotes

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Friendship Quotes

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

- Alfred North Whitehead | The Past Quotes

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

- Alfred North Whitehead | The Past Quotes

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

- Alfred North Whitehead | The Present Quotes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Positive Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Change Quotes

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Instincts Quotes

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Risks Quotes

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Courage Quotes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

- Alfred North Whitehead | Time Quotes

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....

- Alfred North Whitehead | Creativity Quotes