Disease Quotes · Page 48

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

— Sathya Sai Baba

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

— Robin Williams

Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching.…

— Peter Thiel

HATING is an emotional disease... so for those who hate me... Hope you get well soon...

— Anonymous

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

— Phyllis Chesler

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

— Sophocles

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

— Pearl S. Buck

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

— Daniel Guerin

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,…

— Saint Basil

Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got,…

— George Washington

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are…

— Dean Ornish

The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This…

— Benjamin Creme

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and…

— Alice Miller

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I…

— Princess Diana

If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will…

— Mark Bittman

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A…

— Thomas Carlyle

To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the…

— Robert Koch

Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and…

— Philip Yancey

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the…

— Christopher Morley

Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite…

— Michael Haneke

The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better…

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by…

— Mother Teresa

“Depression may seem completely useless. Even apart from the risk of suicide, sitting all day morosely staring at the wall can't get…

— Randolph M. Nesse

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

— Andrew Weil

“The supplement industry is the biggest threat to the pharmaceutical industry.”

— Steven Magee

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a…

— Ralph Abernathy

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

— Ambrose Bierce

When I was 10 I had a bone disease called osteomyelitis; they said if they didn't operate, I had 24 hours to live.

— John Bishop

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and…

— Maggie Kuhn

All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

— Gary Johnson

Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and…

— Henry E. Sigerist

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

— Rumi

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

— M. Scott Peck

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

— Edward Abbey

Meditation is the single most powerful tool to aid recovery from disease and lead to a life of maximum health

— Ian Gawler

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

— Linus Torvalds

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

— Susan Sontag