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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

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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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Future
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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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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Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
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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.
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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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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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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.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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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.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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