A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
