Physicians Quotes · Page 5

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

— Alexander the Great

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

— Daniel Nathans

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

— Karl Ludwig von Knebel

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

— Petronius

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

— Phyllis Diller

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

— Immanuel Kant

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

— Immanuel Kant

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

— Alexander Pope

I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.

— Katharine Hayhoe

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

— John of Salisbury

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

— Susan Sontag

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of…

— John Dewey

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

— Ovid

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

— Warren Zevon

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

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony…

— Albert Claude

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of…

— Thornton Wilder

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that…

— Abraham Verghese

Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for…

— Voltaire

To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god.…

— John Owen

As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window…

— Richard Carmona

A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without…

— Anthony Trollope

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare…

— Harriet Martineau

Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable…

— Andreas Libavius

Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a…

— Michel de Montaigne

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if…

— Francis Bacon

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have…

— Andrew Bacevich

The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…

— Wilfred Trotter

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick…

— Thomas Szasz

Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local…

— Walter E. Williams

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

— Charlemagne

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.

— William Osler

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

— Henry Fielding

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

— Samuel Wilson

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

— Abraham Verghese

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

— Ambrose Bierce

Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.

— Henry E. Sigerist