Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred North Whitehead
Some Similar Quotes
  1. They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down. - Scott OConnor

  2. Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this.... - David Bentley Hart

  3. See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, - Neal Stephenson

  4. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. - Leo Tolstoy

  5. Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyesand when again they open, the sun will rise. Hear it's safe, here it's warm hear the daisies guard you from every harm... - Suzanne Collins

More Quotes By Alfred North Whitehead
  1. Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

  2. Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

  3. Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you...

  4. Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

  5. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Related Topics