Common sense is genius in homespun.

Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Genius Quotes

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely...

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational...

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational...

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

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

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking...

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking...

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

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

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed...

We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed...

The Day of Judgment is an important notion: but that Day is always with us

The Day of Judgment is an important notion: but that Day is always with us

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual...

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual...

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not...

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not...

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;...

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;...

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released....

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released....

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether...

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether...