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• Error is the price we pay for progress.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Errors, Progress, Pay

  "Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Adventure, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Simple, Asks

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Silly, Creativity, Ideas

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead".

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• I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Preoccupation, Type, Rescue

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Failure, Teaching, Causes

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Independent, Conversation, Circumstances

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Time, Educational

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Time, Inspiration

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Determination, Opinion, Preservation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Emotion, Life Is, Ninety

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

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• The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Beauty, Everyday, Foundation

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• Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosopher

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• All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teacher, Details, Mastery

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Half

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mirrors, World, Location

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Science, Merit

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Religious, Affection, Persons

  Church and Home (published by United Methodist Church, and Evangelical United Brethren Church), Volume 1, p. 21, 1964.

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• Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Symbolism, Fancy

  Alfred North Whitehead (1985). “Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect”, p.61, Fordham Univ Press

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• The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Perception, Foundation, Eternity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Adventure, Self, Common Sense

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dream, Dreamer, Fulfilled

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• Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Style, Mind, Lasts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Order, Firsts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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