David Bohm Quotes

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.