Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

I'm a huge believer in clarity.

I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

They want it all - all As, all wins by 20, and want the highest GPA. Don't coach at Kentucky if you can't accept that.

My mom to this day is the hardest coach I've ever had. There were times when my stepdad would look at me and say 'you had a good game' and my mom would be like 'I don't know what you're talking about, you had 2 or 3 turnovers.

I know what I want, and where to go.

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.