Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
EDWARD DE BONORemoving the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
EDWARD DE BONOThere’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.
EDWARD DE BONOWestern 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.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
EDWARD DE BONOAs 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.
EDWARD DE BONOEveryone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
EDWARD DE BONOIt has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
EDWARD DE BONOLogic will never change emotion or perception.
EDWARD DE BONOThe mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
EDWARD DE BONOTo deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
EDWARD DE BONOThe concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
EDWARD DE BONOWe may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
EDWARD DE BONOPerception is real even when it is not reality.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
EDWARD DE BONOIt’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
EDWARD DE BONOThe image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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