Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About 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.

  • The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
  • Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
  • Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

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

    "The Organization of Thought" (1917)
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Alfred North Whitehead

  • Born: February 15, 1861
  • Died: December 30, 1947
  • Occupation: Mathematician