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.
EDWARD DE BONOArgument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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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 there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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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.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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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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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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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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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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