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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Almost Almost All Aspect Certain First Foolishness Ideas New New Ideas Produced

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

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Act Fools Imagination Knowledge Without

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

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Absence Bible Humor Literature Most Singular Things Total

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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Grows Knowledge Shrinks Wisdom

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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Aim Alone Ambition Best Employed Enjoyed Fame Labour Mankind Most Obtained Share Source Then True Virtue Wisdom You

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Altogether Context Deal Destroyed Distorted Either Great Great Deal Juxtaposition Matter Meaning Mine Out Quite Quoted Sentence Some Suffered Which Who Writers

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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Average Bottom Close Just Top You

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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Billionaire Boss Looking Me Selfish Would

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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Accomplishments Acquire Animal Animals Become God He Himself Makes Man Wants

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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Adventure Civilization Decay Full Without

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 15th, 1861

Died: December 30th, 1947

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