In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Alfred North WhiteheadMots clés science intelligence education
A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Alfred North WhiteheadError is the price we pay for progress.
Alfred North WhiteheadA simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view
Alfred North WhiteheadFor successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.
Alfred North WhiteheadRationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
Alfred North WhiteheadIn the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasoning grasps at straws for premises and float on gossamer for deductions.
Alfred North WhiteheadIntelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
Alfred North WhiteheadMots clés science understanding ideas freud sigmund-freud
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