Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

  • -- Edward de Bono 爱德华·德·波诺

许多高智商的人缺乏思考能力。许多智力一般的人都是善于思考的人。汽车的动力与汽车的行驶方式是分开的。

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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

我做现场表演的一个原因——以及每个月在公共电台的演讲——是为了提醒自己,人们听到了这个节目,它有观众,它存在于世界上。很容易忘记这一点。

Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

聪明、成功、有吸引力的人可能令人生畏。他们强迫我们对自己照镜子;我们可能会感到失望、嫉妒,或者受到个人成长的鼓舞。

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

那些不相信任何神的思想家常常断言,对人类的爱本身就足以满足他们的需要;所以,如果他们有的话,也许会有。

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

我们太聪明,太愤世嫉俗,不适合战争。当然,你不需要愚蠢和原始的死亡一个愚蠢的,原始的死亡。

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

以任何合理的成就衡量,启蒙思想家对科学的信仰都是有道理的。

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

当人们告诉我,我让他们彻夜未眠时,我觉得我成功了。

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

一个只赚钱的企业是一个糟糕的企业。

Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years.

富人积累金钱;穷人积年累月。