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Wilfred Trotter has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without…
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to…
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
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It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those…
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of…
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The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again;…
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number…
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It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind.…
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The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But…
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The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
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The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists…
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The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
— James Buchan
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has…
— Galen Strawson
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However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,…
— Walter E. Williams
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It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to…
— Antonin Scalia
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery,…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
— Paul Di Filippo
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Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing…
— Rajneesh
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
— George Will
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
— Abraham Maslow
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
— Simon Newcomb
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It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket…
— Bob Lutz
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