Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

Topics

ChangeArtProgressOrderPreserve

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

Jenny Eclair

ManI CanEatContentSureFiber

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

Melvin Van Peebles

PeopleBlackThinkTalkingYouBack

I can't say I love football anymore.

Ann McKee

LoveFootballSayAnymoreI Love

When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

BusinessYouCountryIndiaAirport

You can only make the work that you have to make. And I am old enough now to know that I can't start making shows that are going to win awards. That way madness lies.

John Tiffany

WorkI AmWinStartEnoughMadness

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

Rose George

GreatForwardPoliticalPartyLeap

It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.

Mary Roach

ExperienceBrainVoiceThinkDoing

I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.

Luciano De Crescenzo

StrengthIgnoranceFightI AmCity

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

PositiveChildrenStartImpactYear

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.

Colson Whitehead

WordsAppreciateFindWriteHard

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So, anything that's going to help me grow.

Audra McDonald

ChallengeMeGrowHelpFindGoing

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Alice Miller

ForgivenessAngerGenuineFacesDeny

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