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Category: Edward de Bono

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

Argument, Create, Reveal

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Car, Power, People

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Me, Attention, Little

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Mind, Human, Reason

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

Brain, Human Brain, Human

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.

Mind, Me, Attention

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

Think sideways!

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.

acceptance-of-oneself, confidence, ego, perception, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-image, self-perception

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

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.

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

emotion, logic, prejudice