Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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

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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

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

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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery

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

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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

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

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In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not...

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Knowledge keeps no better than fish

#Knowledge

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose

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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

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