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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

English - Mathematician | February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Courage True Virtue Heroes Resolve

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

Alfred North Whitehead

God Man Animal Animals Become He

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

Yourself Ideas Think You Personal

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Experience Words Mature Cannot Our

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Said Everything Been Who Discover

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Mind Analysis Obvious Unusual Very

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

I Am Always Joke Who Those Noticed

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge Ignorance Death

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Alfred North Whitehead

Future Business Science Dangerous

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge Imagination Fools Without

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

Alfred North Whitehead

You Top Average Bottom Close Just

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Boss Me Looking Selfish Would

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