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Alfred North Whitehead
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Alfred North Whitehead?
→ A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
→ I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
→ Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
→ It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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Pick the quote attributed to Alfred North Whitehead.
→ You don’t have to know everything. You just have to know where to find it.
→ I don’t suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it!
→ No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
→ Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Select the quotation attributed to Alfred North Whitehead.
→ The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
→ Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
→ To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
→ It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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One of these may be attributed to Alfred North Whitehead. Which one?
→ A really good detective never gets married.
→ We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
→ If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
→ It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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Which one of these belongs to Alfred North Whitehead?
→ A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.
→ It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
→ True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
→ All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Alfred North Whitehead?
→ If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
→ A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
→ It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
→ It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Alfred North Whitehead.
→ I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
→ Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
→ Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
→ Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Alfred North Whitehead. Which one?
→ Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
→ We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
→ When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
→ Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Alfred North Whitehead?
→ Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
→ History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
→ Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
→ The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Alfred North Whitehead.
→ It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
→ They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
→ We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
→ What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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