If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all... — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it. — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not. — J. P. Guilford Copy Share Image
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?"… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, there’s always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can’t clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had… — Robert M. Hayes Copy Share Image
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I'm terrible at solving things. I'm really bad and haven't got any sort of lateral thinking capacity. I am your perfect audience… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
“In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others. — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
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