57 Quotations by Alfred North Whitehead
- 1. A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
![A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.. Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear ...
![A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may ...
![A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
![An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.. Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pa ...
![Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pa .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, ...
![But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without t ...
![Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without t .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. Common sense is genius in homespun.
![Common sense is genius in homespun.. Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of informatio ...
![Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of informatio .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and par ...
![Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and par .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer ...
![Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
![Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.. Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u ...
![Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
![How the past perishes is how the future becomes.. Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 15. Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing languag ...
![Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing languag .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 16. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out o ...
![I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out o .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 17. I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the ...
![I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 18. I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
![I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.. Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 19. If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is ...
![If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
- 20. If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it ...
![If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it .... Alfred North Whitehead.](/img/view.gif)
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