Doctor Quotes · Page 75

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

— J. August Richards

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

— Voltaire

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

— Deepak Chopra

The field of medicine is one you have to have a lot of dedication to enter.

— Mikhail Varshavski

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

— Monica Crowley

Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails

— Sun Simiao

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

— Aristotle

“Coimhead feara fhear na foighrde. (Beware the anger of a patient man)”

— James Patterson

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from…

— Dora Russell

I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female…

— Katherine Ryan

Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just…

— Elliot Cowan

Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals,…

— Sarah Louise Delany

I get auditions for best friend, best girlfriend, a doctor who appears in one scene and tells the protagonist that he has…

— Fala Chen

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting…

— Richard Carmona

I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps…

— Nina Conti

In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was…

— Marie Curie

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will…

— William Osler

Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Real faith, however, is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process. As things unfold, sometimes in full view, let us…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“I emphasize this because some of my colleagues, for whose academic attainments I have great respect, argue" 'You assume too much; this…

— Grantly Dick-Read

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

— Florence Nightingale

It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, had described the body’s ability to heal itself, which he called veriditas (green life force). He…

— Steven R. Gundry

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I…

— Daley Thompson

I like going to the doctor, being vigilant, being told that I'm healthy so I can push myself.

— Joey Chestnut

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

— Benjamin Franklin

The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.

— Robert S. Mendelsohn

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

— Carson McCullers

“It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease.”

— George Eliot

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

— Tim Daly

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

— Josh Billings

“The doctors pushing the frontiers of human medicine had forgotten to account for the common cold.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer…

— Plato

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

— Socrates

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

— Josh Ryan Evans

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

— Thomas R. Insel

I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.

— Leo Varadkar

I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.

— Neelie Kroes

“He wasn’t acknowledging my self-diagnosis at all. What kind of doctor is this? ”

— Ree Drummond

I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.

— Grizz Chapman