Edward de Bono Quotes

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

Learn yourself and love yourself.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.