“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”
Experience
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
ExperienceAll Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Art“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
Death“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
Technology“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
Experience“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”
Knowledge“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
Intelligence“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
Best“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.”
Knowledge“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.”
Pet“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Change“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
Intelligence“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”
Religion“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
Success“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”
Future“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”
Humor“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.”
Business“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
Imagination“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
Courage“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.”
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