Edward de Bono Quotes

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

Without theory we can only copy.

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.