197 Quotes by Edward De Bono

You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.