Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Alfred North Whitehead

English Mathematician

Born: Feb 15, 1861

Died: Dec 30, 1947

Adventure First Knowledge Life Thought You

Related authors: Ada Lovelace Alan Turing Andrew Wiles Charles Babbage Isaac Barrow Isaac Newton James Joseph Sylvester Ronald Fisher

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead

Death Knowledge Ignorance

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead

Me Selfish Looking Would Would-Be Boss Billionaire

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

Art Experience Our Recognition Aesthetic Imposing Pattern Enjoyment

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

Mind Analysis Obvious Unusual Undertake Very Requires

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom Knowledge Shrinks Grows

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead

Live Think Detail Generalities

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophical Consists Characterization General Safest Tradition European Series Plato

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead

Achievement Creative Prolific Seldom Periods Stirred Up Tranquility Mankind

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

You Yourself Think Setting Others Our Destinies Entertaining Catch Ideas Personal Where Decided Aside Certain Largely

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. Alfred North Whitehead

Experience Words Enormous Our Part Mature Cannot Expressed

Philosophy is the product of wonder. Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy Wonder Product

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

Intelligence Apprehend Distinct Ability Wisely Quickness Which Capacity Act Thing

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. Alfred North Whitehead

Life Universe Directed Offensive Against Mechanism

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Alfred North Whitehead

Nature Language Human Nature Written None Itself Human Speech

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead

Somebody Before Everything Has-Been Importance Said Been Discover Did Who

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. Alfred North Whitehead

Humanity Outlook Concrete Literature Expression Receives

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge Fools Imagination Without Act

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