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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

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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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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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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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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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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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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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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