Edward de Bono Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Optimistic, Thinking, Errors

• Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

  Edward de Bono

  Mistake, Thinking, Perception

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

• Logic will never change emotion or perception.

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Emotion, Logic

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'". Interview with Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

• What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Perception, Important

  "Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

• Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

  Edward de Bono

  Communication, Ignorance, Perception

• Perception is real even when it is not reality.

  Edward de Bono

  Real, Reality, Perception

• Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Perception, Brain

• In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

  Edward de Bono

  Writing, Ignorance, History

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

• It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Mind, Attention

  Edward de Bono (2016). “The Happiness Purpose”, p.70, Random House

• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

  Edward de Bono

  Two, Suits You, Perception

• The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Hero, People

• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Perception, Why Not

• Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

  Edward de Bono

  Change, Thinking, Perception

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