Jacque Fresco Quotes

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

What you think is real is your reality.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.

When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But actually, the way you think determines the way you're going to do things. Then you don't notice a result comes back, or you don't see it as a result of what you've done, or even less do you see it as a result of how you were thinking. Is that clear?

Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

So much of our life is dictated by our mindsets. So much of it! Of how we think, we shall become.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

I think your imagination is your reality

Everything is but what we think it.

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

A thought will color a world for us.