Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Philosophy is the product of wonder. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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