Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Grows, Shrinks

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

• Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, People, Tree

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Math, Science

  "The Organization of Thought" (1917)

• 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

  Wisdom, Future, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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