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> [ 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 of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-first-quality-to-be-named-must-always-be-the-power-of-attention/)

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> [The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-second-thing-to-be-striven-for-is-intuition-this-sounds-an/)

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## More by Wilfred Trotter

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-first-quality-to-be-named-must-always-be-the-power-of-attention/)

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> [If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/if-mankind-is-to-profit-freely-from-the-small-and-sporadic-crop-of/)

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> [Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/disease-often-tells-its-secrets-in-a-casual-parenthesis/)

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> [The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-air-of-caricature-never-fails-to-show-itself-in-the-products-of/)

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> [“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-mind-likes-a-strange-idea-as-little-as-the-body-likes-a-strange/)

[Wilfred Trotter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-trotter/)

> [The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-mind-likes-a-strange-idea-as-little-as-the-body-likes-a-strange-2/)

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> [The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-dispassionate-intellect-the-open-mind-the-unprejudiced-observer/)

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> [If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/if-we-watch-ourselves-honestly-we-shall-often-find-that-we-have-begun/)

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> [It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/it-is-necessary-to-guard-ourselves-from-thinking-that-the-practice-of/)

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> [The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-truly-scientific-mind-is-altogether-unafraid-of-the-new-and-while/)

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> [It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/it-is-sometimes-asserted-that-a-surgical-operation-is-or-should-be-a/)

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> [It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/it-was-not-noisy-prejudice-that-caused-the-work-of-mendel-to-lie-dead/)

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> [The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-second-thing-to-be-striven-for-is-intuition-this-sounds-an/)

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> [The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-fundamental-activity-of-medical-science-is-to-determine-the/)

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> [The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-trotter/the-ordinary-patient-goes-to-his-doctor-because-he-is-in-pain-or-some/)

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