Edward de Bono Quotes

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.