Alas Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail,…

— Pat Califia

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak…

— Cynthia Ozick

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good…

— Vijay Prashad

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations…

— Jude Wanniski

Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience,…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”

— George Weigel

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

— Johan Huizinga

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We…

— Michel Foucault

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

— Peter Hitchens