Divides Quote by Alfred Korzybski

We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than…

— Edward T. Hall

“The more we realize that we are only separated by the membrane of our own limiting and dividing beliefs, the more sand we remove,…

— Kayla Severson

“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically…

— Steven Pinker

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of…

— David Hume

If [man] thinks of the totality as constituted of independent fragments, then that is how his mind will tend to operate, but if he…

— David

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools.…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“The compartmentalization of knowledge, which is one of the characteristics of the mental and intellectual scene of the modern world, is not only reflected…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

— Suzanne Collins

Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise…

— Myles Horton

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

— David Bohm

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

— John Dickey