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.
EDWARD DE BONOI’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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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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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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