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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Edward de Bono

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Finding Philosophy Thinking
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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Car Mistake Production Remove
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Best Chef Ingredient Result Win
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time

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