Cognitive Reorientation Quotes

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

You cannot just change regimes; you have to change mindsets.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

The most difficult thing is changing people's mindset.

The country is called to the practice of new customs. The walls and surfaces must be cleaned. But minds too must be cleansed, for that is where the error was born.

When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed.

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.