Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

Joe Garcia

FaithPeopleCorruptionEnoughLost

I'm a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.

Jennifer Holliday

BabyBroadwayStartedTheater

I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy into a single thing the guy was saying.

Angel Cabrera

SayingTalkingSaidWayNeverTwo

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

HistoryWarWorldYouPageWill

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

Stellan Skarsgard

PerformanceDoingDependentOther

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Rosa Luxemburg

ChainsMoveWhoNoticeThose

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Luc de Clapiers

FailureSometimesVirtueUsOur

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

Joseph Barbera

HopeStopTeachHimPointCat

People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.

Dierks Bentley

PoliticsManPeopleThinkDoingOut

The unfolding migratory crisis has become one of the most acute challenges facing the international community. Millions of lives are at stake. All of us have a responsibility to act. Collectively, we need to find solutions.

Arancha Gonzalez

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I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Audrey Hepburn

MyselfPeopleMindThinkNeverIcon

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

Alia Bhatt

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