Max Wertheimer: Quotes about thinking

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

Max Wertheimer: 30 quotes1 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?”

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 1

“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.”

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 190

“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.”

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 112

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

Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 227