Anticipation Quote by Alfred North Whitehead Download Open image “Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.” — Alfred North Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anticipation Inspirational Nature Satisfying Surprise
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving. — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief. — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Surprise is an element that sparks our insides to dance beyond our control. Â It's a kick start in the right direction to change… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency,… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know? — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown. — Lou Boudreau Copy Share Image
Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
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