Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.