whitehead Quotes
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“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”
- Alfred North Whitehead