Acquire Quote by 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

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the…

— Edward de Bono

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

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

Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of…

— William Deresiewicz

If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose…

— Marilyn Jager Adams

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 the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

— Arvid Carlsson

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

— Jerome Bruner

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated…

— Eckhart Tolle