It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
EDWARD DE BONOThere’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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