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

Edward de Bono

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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
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Thinking
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School

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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.
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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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.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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