It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can…

“Revolutions can, and often have, begun with reading. The Doctor and the Saint”

— Arundhati Roy

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give…

— Bertrand Russell

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

— John Bulwer

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

— William Ralph Inge

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were…

— Henry Miller

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it…

— Horace Mann

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are many good (medical) doctors, but very few good diagnostics.

— Florya99

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but…

— Florence Nightingale

“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

— Albert Schweitzer

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan