Edward de Bono Quotes
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.
de Bono, Edward. I Am Right, You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic. Viking, 1991, p. 45.
The documentary was a rabid, racist appeal to the worst kind of prejudices. It was so extreme that even the Republican Candidate, Barry Goldwater, denounced it. The complaint was moot when Citizens for Goldwater-Miller, the film’s producers, withdrew it before it could be aired nationally.
After the invasion, much of the intelligence upon which America relied on Invading Iraq turned out to be completely wrong. It turned out that the Vice President at least, a major supporter of the invasion, had a role in “shaping” the intelligence and analysis to achieve a policy objective.
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor, philosopher and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.