Time is a placebo medication, it only helps you if you…

“Recognize that your attention is the most valuable thing you can ever own, and you alone have the ultimate power to choose where to…

— Sol Luckman

I became a human placebo.

— Bobby Sherman

“The gun, my young friend, is that dark cousin of the placebo, the nocebo. If a placebo provides false benefits, the nocebo imparts false…

— Daryl Gregory

“Subliminal cuing and unconscious priming influence numerous behaviors unrelated to this book. People think potato chips taste better when hearing crunching sounds. We like…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in…

— Robert Whitaker

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they…

— Michael Specter

In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the…

— Kenny Smith

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback…

— Charles Jencks

Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of…

— Tom Vanderbilt

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative…

— Richard Dawkins

“This book is also not about denial. None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may presently have.…

— Joe Dispenza

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

— Anonymous

Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body…

— Larry Dossey

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

— Chris Kilham

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect…

— Bruce H. Lipton