Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

Man knows much more than he understands.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.