Max Wertheimer: Quotes about thinking

Max Wertheimer was Co-founder of Gestalt psychology. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

Max Wertheimer: 30 quotes 1 like

“What occurs when, now and then, thinking really works productively? What happens when, now and then, thinking forges ahead? What is really going on in such a process?”

Max Wertheimer

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 1

Thinking

“Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements.”

Max Wertheimer

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 190

Thinking , Change

“Repetition is useful, but continuous use of mechanical repetition also has harmful effects. It is dangerous because it easily induces habits of sheer mechanized action, blindness, tendencies to perform slavishly instead of thinking, instead of facing a problem freely.”

Max Wertheimer

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 112

Problem , Thinking

“I am not sure whether there can be a way of really understanding the miracle of thinking.”

Max Wertheimer

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 227

Way , Understanding , Thinking