"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge." ― Alfred North Whitehead Topic(s): Death More From Alfred North Whitehead "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended." "No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it." "Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language." More In Death "But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."― Theodore Bikel "I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream."― Emilio Estevez "Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."― Ayn Rand