David Bohm Quotes

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

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

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.