Quote

America is not just a country, it's an idea.

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
Country
Idea
America
Ideas

More quotes by Edward de Bono

Image
It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
Edward de Bono
Image
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono
Image
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Edward de Bono
Image
Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
Edward de Bono
Image
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Edward de Bono
Image
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
Edward de Bono
Image
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
Edward de Bono
Image
It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.
Edward de Bono
Image
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Edward de Bono
Image
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.
Edward de Bono
Image
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.
Edward de Bono
Image
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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
Image
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward de Bono