Edward de Bono Quotes

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.

Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

I always try to have an open mind, but there is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in the head.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

It takes intellectual stamina to stay open, as a leader and a mind, to absorb information and adversity.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

I think the open mind is the one that's reachable.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Shift often from openness to closure.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.