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.
EDWARD DE BONOWestern traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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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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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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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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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 solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Everyone 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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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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