Physicians Quotes

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

— Aristotle

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

— John Heywood

Physicians should be genotyped.

— Anne Wojcicki

Nature itself is the best physician.

— Hippocrates

Nature can do more than physicians

— Oliver Cromwell

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

— James Howell

The sun - my almighty physician.

— Thomas Jefferson

The physician is only nature's assistant.

— Galen

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

— James Naismith

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

— Herophilos

Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

— Alexander Lowen

The consultant's first obligation is to the patient, not to his brother physician.

— Burton J. Hendrick

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

— Anonymous

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

— Giordano Bruno

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

— Petronius

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

— Ambrose Bierce

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the…

— Ambrose Bierce

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

— Paracelsus

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

— Robert Atkins

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all…

— Henri de Mondeville

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

— Plutarch

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience…

— Robert Jarvik

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in…

— Albert Schweitzer

There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that…

— Erasmus Darwin

The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be…

— Isak Dinesen

A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors.…

— Herbert M. Shelton

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another…

— Anonymous

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles…

— Jack McDevitt

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate…

— Henry David Thoreau

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in…

— Dennis Prager

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more…

— Ken Jeong

“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of…

— Suzy Kassem

Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your…

— Michel Foucault

Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable…

— Andreas Libavius

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a…

— Michel de Montaigne

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if…

— Francis Bacon

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is…

— John of Kronstadt

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe…

— Jonathan Swift