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
- 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.
- Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
- Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- 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.
- Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
- 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
- My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
- When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
- Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
- In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
- I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
- To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.