197 Quotes by Edward De Bono

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

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.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

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.

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.