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Results of search for Author: Alfred North Whitehead - Page 2 of 4
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim
Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
Obtained with labor, for mankind employed,
And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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