"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." ― Alfred North Whitehead Topic(s): Change More From Alfred North Whitehead "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." "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." More In Change "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has."― Margaret Mead "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."― Edmund Burke "We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."― Karen Armstrong