Challenges Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in…

— Bob Newhart

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

— Clifton Fadiman

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

— Patrick Wolf

“This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same…

— David Rakoff

A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a…

— Konrad Lorenz

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are…

— Christopher Morley

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

— Romain Gary

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you…

— Theresa Russell

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

— Steve Allen