Always Quote by Edward de Bono

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason.…

— Edward de Bono

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

— Bernard Williams

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

— John Lithgow

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

— Debra Granik

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

— Robert Benchley

“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

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

— Mark Twain

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's…

— Goldie Hawn

Comedians are great at laughing at themselves, we really are. We mock everyone else and we can take it as well.

— Paul Whitehouse

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

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all.…

— Margaret Halsey