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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Edward de Bono
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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
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University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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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.
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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.
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
Edward de Bono
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
Edward de Bono
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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