That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
Alfred North WhiteheadSo far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
Alfred North WhiteheadHuman life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead