I Am Right You Are Wrong Quotes

“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”
― Edward De Bono, I Am Right You Are Wrong

“Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].”
― Edward De Bono, I Am Right You Are Wrong

“Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.”
― Edward De Bono, I Am Right You Are Wrong

“A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.”
― Edward de Bono, I Am Right You Are Wrong