Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Whitehead, Alfred North
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.
Whitehead, Alfred North
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Whitehead, Alfred North
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
Whitehead, Alfred North