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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom, People, Tree

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom, Grows, Shrinks
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom, Math, Science
"The Organization of Thought" (1917)

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.

Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom, Future, Past
Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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