Edward de Bono Quotes

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

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

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

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

It's funny because it's funny.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I'm not very funny!

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

You know, funny can be universal.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.