The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
- An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
- It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
- 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.
- Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
- 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.
- Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Best Quotes
- Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
- For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
- Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
- Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
- The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
- To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
- Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.