Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Alfred North Whitehead:

"The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth."

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."

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

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change."

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

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."

"The poet, the artist, the sleuth whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends."

"There are no wh"

What are your thoughts about the quotes from Alfred North Whitehead?