No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

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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.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its...

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

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

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

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

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...

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose

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,...

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...

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

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

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational...

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational...

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of...

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of...

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

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

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.