Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
EDWARD DE BONOWe need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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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.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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