Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead
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- Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.