Dr. Edward De Bono Quotes

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

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

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

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.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

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.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

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

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.

Think sideways!

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