Quote

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

Edward de Bono

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Enough
Replace
Rage
Lying
Action
Truth

More quotes by Edward de Bono

Image
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono
Image
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.
Edward de Bono
Image
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
Edward de Bono
Image
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.
Edward de Bono
Image
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Edward de Bono
Image
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
Edward de Bono
Image
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono
Image
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
Edward de Bono
Image
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
Edward de Bono
Image
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Edward de Bono
Image
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
Edward de Bono
Image
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono
Image
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
Edward de Bono
Image
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
Edward de Bono
Image
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
Edward de Bono
Image
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
Edward de Bono
Image
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.
Edward de Bono
Image
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.
Edward de Bono
Image
America is not just a country, it's an idea.
Edward de Bono
Image
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.
Edward de Bono