Change Quote by Edward de Bono

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It…

— Edward de Bono

Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought…

— Edward de Bono

I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong…

— Seymour Chwast

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many…

— Edward de Bono

Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in…

— Max Wertheimer

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

— Joseph Joubert

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

— Joseph Joubert

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

— Agnes Denes

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

— Arvid Carlsson

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy…

— Frederick Lenz

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

— Earl Nightingale