David Bohm Quotes

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.

Much has been written about the life of the mind.

I like the cerebral process.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Thinking nurseth thinking.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

I want to know how the mind works.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

I have no inner monologue.

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.