Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
EDWARD DE BONOAsking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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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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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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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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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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