Alfred North Whitehead Quotes



Best 10 Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

“Error is the price we pay for progress.”

“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”

“Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.”

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

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

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”

“We think in generalities, but we live in details.”

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