Edward de Bono Quotes

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

I like to laze around. I think that's a huge part of creativity. You have to let your mind relax and then another part of your brain suddenly connects with the solution you're trying to find.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.

We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue that we don't use it effectively. Some of us are not trained to use our brains to their full potential. But definitely, all of it is there.

To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. But, in my view, this whole field is based on a misconception. I think the brain is analog, whereas the machines are digital. They really are different. So I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.