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
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
- I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
- For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
- Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.