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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
«The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.»
«Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
Advances, extending, operations
«Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
apprehend, apprehended, apprehending, distinct, quickness, wisely
«In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
marked, oncoming, transition, well-marked
«Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
accomplishments, The Animals
«In all education the main cause of failure is staleness»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Failure
| Keywords:
main, staleness
«Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
aimed, derived, enjoyment