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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. (Alfred North Whitehead)
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. View quote
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. View quote
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. View quote
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. View quote
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. View quote
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. View quote
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. View quote
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Philosophy is the product of wonder. View quote
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. View quote
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. (Alfred North Whitehead)
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery. View quote
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. View quote
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. View quote
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. View quote
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Common sense is genius in homespun. View quote
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. View quote
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...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. View quote
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. View quote
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. View quote
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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. View quote
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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. View quote
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Knowledge keeps no better than fish. View quote
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. View quote
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Alfred North Whitehead

Occupation: English Mathematician
Born: February 15, 1861
Died: December 30, 1947
Quotes count: 199
Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead

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