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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes: You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
         

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


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



If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.



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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.



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



Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.



Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.



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...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.



Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.



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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.





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