Success Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

14 Success quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead’s 14 reflections bring a philosophical edge to the concept of success. Their measured tone invites contemplation, making the set a thoughtful pause for anyone wrestling with the deeper meaning of achievement.

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The many become one and are increased by one.

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The motive of success is not enough.

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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

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When success turns a man's head he faces failure

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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

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The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

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We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

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Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is…

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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the…

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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past…

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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted…

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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

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

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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

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It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of…

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The many become one and are increased by one.

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

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

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Common sense is genius in homespun.

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

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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in…

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