Though grateful, she was not quite as astounded as her…

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

— Alexander Pope

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd…

— Hippocrates

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be…

— Francis Collins

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

— George Eliot

Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and…

— Sun Simiao

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or…

— Andrew Saul

The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition…

— Wilfred Trotter

I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am…

— Mildred Fay Jefferson

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

I am not impressed with what people own. But I’m impressed with what they achieve. I’m proud to be a physician. Always strive to…

— Thomas J. Stanley

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we…

— Abraham Verghese

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to…

— Helen H. Gardener

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

— Horace