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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes: Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
         

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


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



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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.



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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.



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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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