Disease Quotes · Page 40

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

— Hippocrates

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

— Jonathan Swift

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

— William Osler

The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

— Jacques Chirac

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have…

— Malachy McCourt

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

— David Perlmutter

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

— Mark Twain

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to…

— Donald A. Norman

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country…

— Anonymous

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values...holds great…

— George Mason

Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft…

— Charles Studd

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an…

— Mitch Hedberg

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that…

— Ann Veneman

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by…

— Christian D. Larson

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its…

— Ivan Chtcheglov

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness…

— Rajneesh

A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so…

— Oriana Fallaci

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one…

— Jimmy Carter

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom.…

— Quentin Crisp

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the…

— Francis Bacon

Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion…

— Rajneesh

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

— Emily Dickinson

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

— Anonymous

Glaucoma is a thief of sight. Each day it steals from you precious memories - not of what was, but of what's…

— Jeremiah Lim

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

— Jimmy Carter

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my…

— Rebecca Wells

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

— Walter Duranty

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure…

— Constance Baker Motley

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

— William S. Burroughs

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

— Democritus

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

— Alexander Pope

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

— Anton Chekhov

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

— Ani DiFranco

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people

— Judith Light