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
- 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.
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
- Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
- I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
- When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
- Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
- Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.