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.
- 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.
- Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
- 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.
- No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
- Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- 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.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Best Quotes
- Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
- He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
- A house is built with bricks, and love with words is too.
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
- Our whole society is instantaneous.
- Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
- I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
- Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.