Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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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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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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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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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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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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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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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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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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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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