Quote by Alfred North Whitehead Download Open image “We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” — Alfred North Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Beyond people, it's every detail, every little thing matters almost in an obsessive way. All of those details matter inside the framework of the… — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly. — Sam Jaeger Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about. — Anonymous 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
