Attention Quote by Edward de Bono

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

— Edward de Bono

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap…

— Edward de Bono

The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.

— Bernard Williams

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

— Alice Meynell

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very…

— James Fadiman

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

— Peggy Noonan

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity…

— Diane Keaton

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out…

— Agnes Repplier

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

— Ray Stevenson

“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid…

— Gene Weingarten