Edward de Bono Quotes

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

I think what we can do is to develop this incredible computer that we have on our heads, because it's endless. It's just the most brilliant thing we have to develop, and know that we have the power over all of it.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Few things are as essential as education.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

You have to learn and keep learning.

You keep learning all the time.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

I love learning new techniques.