Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

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.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.