197 Quotes by Edward De Bono

Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].

почти всичко може да бъде допълнително опростено.

Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough...

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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.

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.

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.