Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.