A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

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

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physician, heal thyself.

— Luke the Evangelist

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

— Isak Dinesen

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

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

— Agatha Christie

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

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

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

— William James Mayo

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

— John Ford

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

— Alexander Pope

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

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Thomas Fuller

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