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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

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
Brain
Perceptions
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Ambiguity
Human
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Humans
Invent
Thinking
Tolerate
Patterns
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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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This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .
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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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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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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