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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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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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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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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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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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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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.
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