Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Common sense is genius in homespun. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
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. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician More Alfred North Whitehead Quotes 0