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Mind Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
- Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
- I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got…
- An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in…
- Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
- The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
- Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for…
- The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the…
- Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life…
- It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
- Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle