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


-David Bohm

posted in knowledge


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

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."

-David Bohm

travelView Quote
"So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction."

-David Bohm

technologyView Quote
"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."

-David Bohm

technologyView Quote
"Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times."

-David Bohm

societyView Quote
"Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement."

-David Bohm

relationshipView Quote
"Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%."

-David Bohm

medicalView Quote

More Quotes About knowledge

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."

-Stanley Fish

knowledgeView Quote
"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."

-Harrison Salisbury

knowledgeView Quote
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

-Abraham Cowley

knowledgeView Quote
"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."

-George Andrew Olah

knowledgeView Quote
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."

-Carl Clinton Van Doren

knowledgeView Quote
"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"

-Will Harvey

knowledgeView Quote