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born 1954 United States

David Anthony Levy (born 1954) is an American psychologist, professor, author, stage director and actor. He has provided psychological perspectives on current events in numerous broadcast and publication media, and is co-author of an internationally best-selling textbook on cross-cultural psychology and critical thinking.

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The human capacity for denial and rationalization is always shocking, but never surprising.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Insight is the booby prize of life.

Tools of Critical Thinking: Metathoughts for Psychology (1997)

There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Intuition is usually the first word, and is sometimes the last word, but should never be the only word.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Don’t worry, there will always be something to worry about.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Nowadays, the absence of catastrophic news is great news.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Winning isn’t as fun as losing is miserable.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

There are only three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

I used to fear that taking medication would change my personality; now I fear that it won’t.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

When it’s bad, I get depressed; when it’s good, I get nervous.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Social psychology is the scientific study of the obvious, which invariably leads to conflicting results.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

There are two types of people in this world — those who think that there are two types of people in this world, and those who don’t.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

I would do anything to keep indulging...including quitting indulging.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

When a psychoanalyst takes on the role of a blank screen, all he really learns is how the patient responds to people who try to act like they’re a blank screen.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

Facts are like kryptonite to teenagers.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

All’s well that changes least.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

It always is...until it's not.

Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Levy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.