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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
«Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.»
«The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people»
«Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
spoken language, squeak, squeaks
«One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
trend, wandering
«In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed»
«There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
delusion, dogmatism, existing, finality, modes, self-satisfied
«I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
billionaire, billionaires