Lateral Thinking Quotes

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Creative thinking and groundbreaking ideas are the answers to yawning dullness and threadbare lifestyles. Lateral thinking and new insight allow us to choose alternative paths and unstructured pursuits, wiping out obstacles to the furtherance and refinement of our identity. (“An egg every day”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye. In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can't make head or tail out of anything, you start looking laterally. That's a word he later used to describe a growth of knowledge that doesn't move forward like an arrow in flight, but expands sideways, like an arrow enlarging in flight, or like the archer, discovering that although he has hit the bull's-eye and won the prize, his head is on a pillow and the sun is coming in the window. Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon one. Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“To some people critical thinking means you mustn't be critical of them only others”
― rassool jibraeel snyman

“To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy”
― rassool jibraeel snyman

“Sooner or later, there’s always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can’t clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.”
― Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

“That wasn't a mistake, was ‘a fully justified venture which, for reasons beyond your control, did not work”
― Edward de Bono

“Many of those who are advised to think outside the box do not even think inside the box.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“So this is the trick to growing in your career: whatever you hear, read, learn from outside your industry...don’t think literally...think laterally about how you will apply it to your work. This will bend minds.”
― Richie Norton

“Every now and then, someone blames their not being physically strong for their not being able to think of a solution.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes the correct answer is neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’, but ‘a-b’.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Lateral Thinking is key to all the secrets in the world”
― Sapan Saxena, The Tenth Riddle

“Think laterally to understand where irrational thinking creates bad behavior and confuses the mind.”
― Richie Norton

“Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation. ”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth

“English: "A dadascientist provokes in a way, so scientists and philosophers try to think other ways than they were taught to, so they could discover something new easily."

Česky: „Dadavědec provokuje tak, aby vědci a filosofové zkoušeli přemýšlet i jinak než se naučili, aby mohli snáze objevit něco nového.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“English: "Dadascience is a crossbred of science, art and philosophy."

Česky: „Dadavěda je kříženec vědy, umění a filosofie.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“To engage in later thinking, one must let go of preconceived notions and consider novel concepts.”
― Shree Shambav, Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I