Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

Insight must precede application.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Words without experience are meaningless.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

A lot of learning canbe a little thing.

Life is the great teacher.

By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail