Inspirational Quotes » Alfred North Whitehead

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

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Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtapos

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

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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.

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If a dog jumps in 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.

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It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimat

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We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by t