Edward de Bono Quotes

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

A feeling is not a fact.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

People and nations act on the basis of what they feel rather than what is real.

It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

Love is the only rational act.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.