I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
EDWARD DE BONOPerception is real even when it is not reality.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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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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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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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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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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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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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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