I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter. — Steven Wright
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko
Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind. — Norman Vincent Peale
For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect. — Carl Pfeiffer
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work. — Thomas Szasz
False hope is better than no hope at all. — Lois Greiman
More drugs are taken to quiet the mind than to heal the body. — Naval Ravikant
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all. — Voltaire
Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions. — Cindy Crawford
Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind and that will suffice. — Joseph Murphy
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force. — Edgar Cayce
Short Placebo Quotes
I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud. — Jon Stewart
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre
Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real? — George Carlin
God is a placebo for your own mortality. — Robert Barron
Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo — Brian Molko
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect. — Irving Kirsch
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. — John L. Mcclenahan
I became a human placebo. — Bobby Sherman
I'm addicted to placebos. — Steven Wright
There is no such thing as a placebo erection. — Chris Kilham
Placebo Effect Quotes
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment. — Ben Goldacre
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
... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind. — John E. Sarno
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases. — Matthieu Ricard
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma. — Irving Kirsch
I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy. — Kat Duff
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist." — Kenny Smith
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect. — Bruce H. Lipton
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers — J.P. Moreland
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker
Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time?
Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me. — Brian Molko
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works! — Matthieu Ricard
I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo. — Matthieu Ricard
A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection. — Chris Kilham
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo. — Frederick Lenz
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy. — Bernie Siegel
I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little. — Tyler Cowen
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
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy. — Charles Jencks
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
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
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking. — Larry Dossey
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