"Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned."

-- Edward de Bono

#Thinking Quotes #Skills Quotes #Born Quotes

“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
“Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.”
“I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.”
“Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.”
“Amir Khan will come back and he will win back the world title because I know the guy personally, and I know what he's made off. There's no quit in this guy.”
“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”
“From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations”
“Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.”

Source : Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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