Physicians Quotes · Page 7

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions…

— Rick Renzi

At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the…

— Betty Shine

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that…

— Warren Zevon

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

— Ovid

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a…

— Anonymous

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering…

— George Eliot

Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding…

— Hippocrates

When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked…

— Hendrik Goltzius

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the…

— Plato

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence,…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can…

— Henry Howarth Bashford

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal…

— Martin Luther

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and…

— Bob Barr

A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him;…

— Richard Baxter

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Do you conceive of your Lord as less because? He shows that humiliation is the best road to exaltation (cf. Mt. 23:12);…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and…

— Jill Stein

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope…

— Harriet Martineau

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of…

— Arno C. Gaebelein

The most devastating indictment of the president's proposal is that it threatens to destroy virtually everything about American health care that's worth…

— William Kristol

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

— Joel Fuhrman

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice…

— Francis Bacon

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

— Samuel Johnson

“Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.”

— Danielle Ofri

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

— Francois Rabelais

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

— Agatha Christie

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

— Rudolf Virchow

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for…

— Robert Jarvik

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

— Robert A. Burton

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

— John Donne

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all…

— Mary Tyler Moore

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the…

— Francis Quarles

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither…

— Phyllis Bottome