A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
EDWARD DE BONOEveryone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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