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].
Edward de BonoTags: real-life
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 BonoTags: real-life literature
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
Edward de BonoTags: inspirational real-life
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward de BonoTags: real-life
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.
Edward de BonoTags: real-life
Kecantikan adalah sesuatu yang dapat diapresiasi oleh orang lain.
Edward de BonoTags: inspirational
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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.
Edward de BonoTags: philosophical
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.
Edward de BonoSimplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
- Edward De Bono
In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was "wrong.
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