“It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Edward de Bono Quotes
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward de Bono 
67% of people like this quote
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
62% of people like this quote
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Edward de Bono
53% of people like this quote
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
53% of people like this quote