“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
“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.”
KnowledgeAll Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Change“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.”
Alone“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
Courage“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“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”
Knowledge“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
Technology“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
Best“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
Death“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”
Religion“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“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
Intelligence“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
Experience“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”
Experience“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Art“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
Intelligence“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.”
History“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
Imagination“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