David Bohm

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

— David Bohm

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

— David Bohm

“if there is listening through a “listener,” then we are not listening.”

— David Bohm

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

— David Bohm

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

— David Bohm

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

— David Bohm

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is…

— David Bohm

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts…

— David Bohm

Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of…

— David Bohm

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and…

— David Bohm

We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought…

— David Bohm

“Even in science to raise fundamental questions can be very disturbing. Somebody could feel, 'I'd like to have the answer to this…

— David Bohm

What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that…

— David Bohm

The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it…

— David Bohm

“[T]here is a universal flux that cannot be defined explicitly but which can be known only implicitly, as indicated by the explicitly…

— David Bohm

“Your questions contain hidden assumptions; that's the point. Therefore, when you question the question itself, you may be questioning a deeper assumption.…

— David Bohm

“Q: Are you saying that thought has a kind of possessive quality which stays, gets stuck, and then becomes habitual? And we…

— David Bohm

If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to…

— David Bohm

“individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. The language is entirely collective, and most…

— David Bohm

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is…

— David Bohm

There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful…

— David Bohm

Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't…

— David Bohm

“Questioner: I'm unclear on the point about the difference between thinking and thought. Are you proposing that we slide from thinking into…

— David Bohm

“If we think, for example, that thought is coming from me individually, this will affect how thought works. So we have to…

— David Bohm

“Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brain structure and function, and how…

— David Bohm

“The more general difficulty with thought is that thought is very active, it's participatory. And fragmentation is itself a symptom of the…

— David Bohm

“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself…

— David Bohm

“Q: You're asking whether we can learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented? Bohm: That's part…

— David Bohm

“It is worth repeating what I've said the last few years—that in our language we have a distinction between 'thinking' and 'thought'.…

— David Bohm

“If we accept 'what seems to be' as 'what is', then we can't inquire. I mean, if what seems to be were…

— David Bohm

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking…

— David Bohm

The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even…

— David Bohm

“If we all had to do a job together, we would likely find that each one of us would have different opinions…

— David Bohm

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately;…

— David Bohm

We have the idea that after we have been thinking something, it just evaporates. But thinking doesn't disappear. It goes somehow into…

— David Bohm

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only…

— David Bohm

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

— David Bohm

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others…

— David Bohm

“The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our…

— David Bohm

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the…

— David Bohm