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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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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the…
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Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not…
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful…
— Joseph Addison
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For…
— William Penn
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.…
— Blaise Pascal
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
— B. C. Forbes
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I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more…
— Susanna Wesley
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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;…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the…
— Hal Borland
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But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so…
— Unknown Author
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