Edward de Bono Quotes

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

Western 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.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.