Edward de Bono Quotes

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

Simplicity not simplistic.

All the great things are simple.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.