Source: Aims of Education
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Famous Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.”
Source: Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology; Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
Source: An Introduction to Mathematics
“Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.”
Source: Modes of Thought
Source: Modes of Thought
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.”
Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures
“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”
Source: RELIGION IN THE MAKING
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.”
“It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”
Source: Aims of Education
“Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.”
“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”
“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
Source: Science and the Modern World
Source: Adventures of Ideas
Source: Science and the Modern World
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”