Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

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

You only stop learning when you quit.

All experience is good experience.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Always educate yourself.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Take advantage of educating yourself.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.