“The 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.”

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

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.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

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.’

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

They support the concept of it even though they know it won’t work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure ‘well if criminals aren’t supposed to have guns what’s the big deal about a background check,’

It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.

My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don’t apply.