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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.

Edward de Bono

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
Western 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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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
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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Finding Philosophy Thinking
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
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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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity Different Establishment Order Pattern Way
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource
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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Absorb Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor

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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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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