Six Thinking Hats Quotes

“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”
― Edward De Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)”
― Edward De Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“It may be that Japanese culture is not ego-based like Western culture: argument has often a strong ego base. The most likely explanation is that Japanese culture was not influenced by those Greek thinking idioms which were refined and developed by medieval monks as a means of proving heretics to be wrong. (p36)”
― Edward De Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)”
― Edward De Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“Thinking is the ultimate human resource.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“las fallas deben corregirse, las debilidades deben suprimirse y los problemas, resolverse.”
― Edward De Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“Unfortunately, Western thinking, with its argument habits, prefers to give a conclusion first and then to bring in the facts to support that conclusion. In contrast, in the map-making type of thinking that I am advocating, we have to make the map first and then choose the route. That means that we have to have the facts and figures first.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“It would be nice if everyone could see in an idea the brilliance and potential that is obvious to the originator of that idea. This is not often the case. Part of the creative process is to shape the idea so that it better fits the need profile of those who are going to have to 'buy' the idea.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“People are much too ready to accept that creativity is a matter of talent or personality, and since they do not have this, they had better leave creativity to others.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“We can demand an effort. We can demand that time be set aside for generating new ideas. Even so, the thinker may come up with nothing new. What matters is that time has been spent in the effort.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“le chapeau rouge permet de solliciter les sentiments et de les exprimer en tant que partie intégrante de la réflexion.”
― Edward de Bono, Les six chapeaux de la réflexion: La méthode de référence mondiale

“There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions.”
― Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats