David Bohm Quotes

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.

We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.

Thought creates our world, and then says 'I didn't do it

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls it. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

Universe consists of frozen light.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.