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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."
"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
"Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head."
"My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men."
"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."
"Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
Explore more quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
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