"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
― Alfred North Whitehead
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Imagination
― Alfred North Whitehead
More From Alfred North Whitehead
- "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
- "Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
- "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."
More In Imagination
- "Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ‘The Grudge’, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days."― Vanessa Hudgens
- "Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."― Carl Jung
- "And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother’s push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education."― Sam Donaldson