Alfred North Whitehead

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

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