Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
-- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) "Aims of Education and Other Essays"
-- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) "Aims of Education and Other Essays"
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- Education with inert ideas is not only useless;
it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North... - Seek simplicity -- and distrust it.
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Alfred North... - In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat:
but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the... - Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim
Wisdom the source of virtue,
and of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed... - Modern science has imposed on humanity the necessity for wandering.
Alfred North... - We think in generalities, we live in detail.
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Alfred North... - Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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