Bono Quotes

"Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed."

on Faith

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."

on Philosophy

"A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth."

on Philosophy

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas."

on Wisdom

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

on Culture

"Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it."

on Music

"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."

on Innovation

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

on Happiness

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

on Perception

"The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds."

on Identity

"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."

on Art

"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."

on Truth

"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."

on Innovation

"There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)"

on Philosophy

"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

on Philosophy