David Bohm Quotes

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

My brain is open.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Thinking differently is my strength.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.