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Danh ngôn của Alfred North Whitehead (Sứ mệnh: 6)

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.