Common sense is genius in homespun.

Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Genius Quotes

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;...

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;...

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not...

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not...

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise...

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise...

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed...

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed...

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best,...

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best,...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best,...

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best,...

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded...

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking...

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and...

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and...

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.