Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Experience

Quotes about: Experience

• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Imagination, Tragedy, Experience

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

• It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Interesting, Important

  'Adventures of Ideas' (1933) pt. 4, ch. 16

• An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Experience, Mature Love, Mature

• The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Differences, Experience

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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