Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate.
Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they. It was the same insularity of mind that made the ancient Jew thank God he was not born a woman, and sent the modern missionary god-substituting to the ends of the earth; and it made Ruth desire to shape this man from other crannies of life into the likeness of the men who lived in her particular cranny of life.
It was the old tragedy of insularity trying to serve as mentor to the universal.
So... Learn to think as those around you think and you can pass yourself off as anything.
Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. We scientists who released this immense power have an overwhelming responsibility in this world life-and-death struggle to harness the atom for the benefit of mankind and not for humanity's destruction. We need two hundred thousand dollars at once for a nation-wide campaign to let people know that a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels. This appeal is sent to you only after long consideration of the immense crisis we face. ... We ask your help at this fateful moment as a sign that we scientists do not stand alone.
Variations of the quote:
"Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
"The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation."
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
"The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them."
http://icarus-falling.blogspot.com/2009/06/einstein-enigma.html
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