Edward de Bono Quotes
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativit...
Show MoreHumor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a p...
Show MoreTo be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...
Show MoreIf you never change your mind, why have one?
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change yo...
Show MoreMany highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled th...
Show MoreThe solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indi...
Show MoreRemoving the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produc...
Show MoreThere is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, t...
Show MoreHumor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than ...
Show MoreRemoving the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produc...
Show MoreA myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through t...
Show MoreIt has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ...
Show MoreMost of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas...
Show MoreIt's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has ...
Show MoreThink sideways!
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be fle...
Show MoreArgument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points t...
Show MoreCritical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is act...
Show MoreCreativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experimen...
Show MoreIt is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see some...
Show MoreThere may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are...
Show MoreWe may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a be...
Show MoreThe need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.
