Edward de Bono Quotes

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

Custom is second nature.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

In every respect the burden is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion. They must be very fortunate well as unusually capable if they obtain a hearing at all.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.

Oh yes. And a great many of them still do.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?