Disease Quotes · Page 28

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

— Francis Bacon

Remember jealousy is the dangerous disease

— Tshehla Thabang

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

— Albert Einstein

The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory

— Nizar Qabbani

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

— Carl Jung

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Anger is like a disease. You can catch it. You can give it.”

— Margarita Engle

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

— Frederick Lenz

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

— Frederick Douglass

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health…

— Ashley Montagu

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

— Charles Peguy

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

— Michael Bloomberg

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

— Anonymous

“Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.

— Judith Durham

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation…

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds…

— Larry Niven

There are so many symptoms of this disease it's hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at…

— Bill McKibben

Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob…

— Romain Gary

If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which…

— Boris Sidis

I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did…

— Anonymous

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music?…

— Peggy Lee

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women…

— Gillian Flynn

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;…

— John Burroughs

And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's…

— Elton John

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready…

— Tim Lebbon

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the…

— Paul Johnson

The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a…

— N. Scott Momaday

... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother…

— Hans Zinsser

To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the…

— Robert Koch

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

— Atul Gawande

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,

— Patch Adams

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

— Robert Jarvik

Heart disease is a food-borne illness.

— Caldwell Esselstyn

Make no mistake, senioritis is a very real disease.

— Anonymous

Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.

— William Thomas Councilman

“I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.”

— Ben Johnson