David Bohm famous quotes

06-16-2025

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

#Learning #Knowledge #Thinking
There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.
-- David Bohm

#Block #Differences #People
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
-- David Bohm

#Real #Learning #Knowledge
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.
-- David Bohm

#Science #Men #Clue
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
-- David Bohm

#Together #Body #Corporations
Universe consists of frozen light.
-- David Bohm

#Light #Frozen #Universe
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.
-- David Bohm

#Sea #Space #Energy
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.
-- David Bohm

#Essence #Live For Today #Growing
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
-- David Bohm

#Movement #Mechanic #Quantum
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
-- David Bohm

#People #Feelings #Body
Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
-- David Bohm

#Believe #Care #Nonsense
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.
-- David Bohm

#Attention #Engagement #Process
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.
-- David Bohm

#People #Development #Common
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
-- David Bohm

#Order #Feelings #Mind
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.
-- David Bohm

#Mind #Development #Common
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.
-- David Bohm

#Thinking #Ideas #Mind

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