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Experience Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- 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.
- It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation…
- The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.
- The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a…
- Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the…
- Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.…
- Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must…
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
- From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
- The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
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- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila