An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
- 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.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
- No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- 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.
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
- 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.
- An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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