Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveAdventureIdeasThoughtDie

Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.

Steve Breen

BeautyWomenMenMoreDifficult

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Tryon Edwards

HappinessSunshineShadowYouFind

'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.

Roger Taylor

SongThinkYouChampionsRockWill

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

Rod Stewart

FamilyGovernmentYouRoyalWell

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

Jonathan Kozol

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I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

Debra Granik

LifeLoveCharacterHumorComedy

I don't do interviews without a collared shirt.

Chris Borland

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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

Apollonius of Tyana

SoulMedicineBodySaidLivingArts

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Philip Zimbardo

ThinkDecadeUpIndividualGone

As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

Peter Landesman

PowerfulI CanTaskDiscourseShape

When I was in my late teens, I discovered 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Monty Python,' and they still make me laugh.

Shaun Evans

MeLaughLateMake Me LaughStill

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Nick Robinson

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