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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

Edward de Bono

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
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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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
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
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
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 know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Creativity Doubt Forever Human Important Progress Repeat Resource
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
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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Children Live News People
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

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