Top 25 Quotes About Placebos
#1. When people are content they are difficult to manoeuvre. We are perennially discontent and offered placebos as remedies.
Russell Brand
#2. I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action
no matter what the action is
might help you feel better.
A. J. Jacobs
#3. Many treatments have turned out over the years to be no better than placebos, and placebos, we have learned, are now known to be one of the strongest anomalies of the mind.
David McRaney
#4. Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life.
Sarah Perry
#5. It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do.
Richard Dawkins
#6. It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
John McClenahan
#7. Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?
George Carlin
#8. If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression - maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.
Ned Vizzini
#10. A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
Charles Jencks
#11. Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
David Mitchell
#12. There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.
Michael Specter
#13. Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg's Pop-Tarts box that says, Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.
Tom Vanderbilt
#14. We were smack bang in the middle, years from the finish, taking nothing for granted. I
Max Porter
#15. History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Khalil Gibran
#16. If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.
Corey Taylor
#17. All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.
Piet Mondrian
#18. A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.
Chuck Daly
#19. That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
Shane Claiborne
#20. The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#21. I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
Richard Flanagan
#22. I didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject.
Joe Casey
#24. When people think about a placebo such as the royal touch, they usually dismiss it as "just psychology." But, there is nothing "just" about the power of a placebo, and in reality it represents the amazing way our mind controls our body.
Dan Ariely
#25. Mr. Honeyfoot's post-chaise travelled through a world that seemed to contain a much higher proportion of chill grey sky and a much smaller one of solid comfortable earth than was usually the case.
Susanna Clarke
