Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Boredom, Useless

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

• After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Stars, Attitude, Sunset

• The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Earth, Rise Above

• Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Feelings, Culture

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Animal, World, Earth

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