Alfred North Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

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.