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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

God is in the world or nowhere creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine of God and that participation is his immortality ....

— Alfred North Whitehead

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

— Alfred North Whitehead

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

— Alfred North Whitehead