The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
EDWARD DE BONOA 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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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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