Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#ignorance #knowledge

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#deeds #only #out #passed #speak

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#art #flourishes #sense #where

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilized #only #those #understood #who

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#coloring #emerges #every #explicitly #imaginative

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#fools #imagination #knowledge #without

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#fundamental #ideas #progress

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#am #deeply #fond #i #i am

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#boss #i #looking #me #selfish