Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
Click on the picture of Alfred North Whitehead quote you want to see a larger version.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Click on the picture of Alfred North Whitehead quote you want to see a larger version.
Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
- An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
- Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
- Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- 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
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
- I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
- But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
- I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- People hurt you again if you can't give them any more.
- By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
- It's not easy to define poetry.
- We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.