There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It i… - Alfred North Whitehead

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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead, OM (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

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It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to
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which they occur : — like unto an arrow in the
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The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. - Alfred North Whitehead

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