Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay

Alfred North Whitehead

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason

Alfred North Whitehead

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious

Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended

Alfred North Whitehead

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery

Alfred North Whitehead

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Alfred North Whitehead

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Alfred North Whitehead
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