Edward de Bono Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Logic will never change emotion or perception.”

“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”

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

“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.”

“People should realize we're jerks just like them.”

“In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.”

“In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.”

“It 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.”

“I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.”

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