It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
EDWARD DE BONOOnly the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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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.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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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.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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